jesus cloudflare getting in the way.
You mean, the owner has configured Cloudflare to aggressively restrict access
A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
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Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#142Access denied Error code 1020 You do not have access to zlib.zu1k.com. The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.
Not sure why they have blocked access to me, i'm trying to connect from an Australian residential IP, AS4764
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#143Access denied Error code 1020 You do not have access to zlib.zu1k.com. The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.
Not sure why they have blocked access to me, i'm trying to connect from an Australian residential IP, AS4764
Same here, Aussie Broadband too.
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#144The site is down
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#145I got an error when visiting zlib.zu1k.com/.
Error code: 1020
Ray ID: 7819e5389c898e4e
Country: IL
Data center: tlv03
IP: 85.65.187.66
Timestamp: 2022-12-30 09:54:40 UTC
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#146Can't wait for someone to come up for a solution to copyright that will benefit everyone.
So, you mean, the current copyright solution? That has seen creation of works skyrocket? Or do you mean a system where people can steal what they want because 'reasons' and 'they want to pay less because xyz'? Do you propose a system that takes ownership from authors and redistributes their works maybe? Why shouldn't owners get to set the pricing? Just because people want to steal doesn't mean it's ok to. Just becaus…
How about a system that - when the author / rights holder "abandons" a work by no longer actively publishing it, it automatically falls into public domain after 5 years? 70+ years after the author's death is literally a lifetime of people who may be unable to access copyrighted but abandoned work. This benefits no one.
Too many works are currently unavailable commercially/legally.
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#147Something that has always bothered me about z-lib and libgen and so on is the impossibility of being able to tell quality from the different uploads. Sometimes the epubs are very good, with a good cover and metadata as well as chapters and no weird aberrations; other times, they're unreadable. But the only thing you have to judge quality is size and general description of the upload which in this website it's been re…
One mitigating factor is that it’s very easy to “correct” all but the very worst ebooks in Calibre:
- Metadata and a cover are one click away
- Removing excessive spacing, padding etc. is a few clicks
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Or do you mean a system where people can steal what they want because 'reasons' and 'they want to pay less because xyz'? If you have a copy of something, and I make a copy of it, and you still have your copy of it, what was stolen? If I find a book in the library and take pictures of each page, is that also theft? What if I write all the words down? What if I use a hand scanner and OCR to copy and transcribe it, is…
The obvious response is that you stole the author's income, by obtaining a copy of their work without compensating them for it. So the obvious retort is that you may not have bothered to purchase the author's work, forgoing your opportunity to read it, thus the author did not lose their sale. The conversation will then turn to defending the existence of copyright as an incentivization to produce valuable works worth…
> The obvious response is that you stole the author's income, by obtaining a copy of their work without compensating them for it.
Given that I (as an European) pay extra fees for copyright management companies for each photography-enabled device, each memory device, each scanner and each printer, I should be enabled to make as many copies of any copyright-protected work as I want.
Which is incidentally how it works over here. What gets you in trouble is making works accessible to copiers, not owning copies.
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#149A Z-library who's who would be useful. Is there any relation between the original operators and the IPFS effort? What about the new .to domain that's as far as I can tell identical in functionality to the original z-library?
Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same experience here. The #1 lesson they failed to learn from Bittorrent and Tox: your DHT must be sessionless . QUIC is not a solution to this particular problem. Although QUIC uses UDP, it still creates and manages sessions. This is incompatible with decentralized scaling. At the scale of Bittorrent and DNS you cannot manage this kind of session state without centralization.
Absolutely. Too many people try to implement DHT on top of stateful connections, it doesn't scale. It must be as cheap as a single packet or two, with no context.
Could you elaborate on why it can't scale if it's stateful?