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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

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Post by wccrawford »

1123581321 wrote: post #86
wccrawford wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My layman's understanding of copyright law says you didn't commit a crime, but whoever sent you the book did commit a crime. My understanding is that it's not illegal to download a book, it's illegal to distribute a book. (Or other copyrighted work.)

No, it is illegal to download (make a copy of) the book. To be legal, you would have to merely view the book without making a copy. This is the operating principle behind all those video streaming sites. This isn't a comment on what OP should have done.

I stand corrected. Thanks!

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Post by ComputerGuru »

altilunium wrote: post #139
ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

FWIW https://libgen.rs already has good search for basically the same books. I like the denser layout that makes better use of whitespace than this HN submission does.

But there's no IPFS link there.

There is, after you select mirror1, mirror2, etc.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Post by dredmorbius »

lioeters wrote: post #163
dredmorbius wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which case are you referring to?

> Britain has authorised the extradition to the United States of a student who created a website allowing people to watch films and television shows for free, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. > ..[The 23-year-old student] allegedly earned tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) through advertising on the TVShack website before it was closed down by US authorities. > The student would be the first British citizen…

Thanks.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Post by neop1x »

jraby3 wrote: post #145

I 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

People should stop over-using CloudFlare for everything. IMO it is not good for IFS "hosting", either.

They act like gatekeepers. Along with blocking, as in this case, they make browser assumptions that force visitors to use one of the most recent mainstream "approved" and unmodified browsers.

For other browsers, they serve "Checking if the site connection is secure" with javascript fingerprinting and a captcha, and sometimes even solving the captcha won't let me in. i have also seen frontends misbehaving due to them not expecting cloudflare error response codes.

Some dvelopers apparenly just blindly enable cloudflare and don't care. :(

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Post by survirtual »

KirillPanov wrote: post #185
survirtual wrote: post #170

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You can restrict DHTs to accept well-formed requests and further restrict them using a web of trust. With a large enough network and an on onboarding path using nodes that have higher bandwidth, it can work to mitigate that vector I’d think. It would be really hard to launch that attack with a DHT that implements appropriate pruning, drop, and block rules for bad behavior. All that can feed into a personal (& autonom…

> an on onboarding path using nodes that have higher bandwidth i.e. Cloudflare. It works great. It is centralized. > Any references for me to read more about this? https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html https://zetok.github.io/tox-spec/

No, not Cloudflare.

You can score member nodes and gauge bandwidth in the known network. Nodes can set their constraints accordingly and take more requests than others. Nodes that are open to edge & can handle a lot more connections can handle the bulk of onboarding requests.

This does not need to be a centralized process.

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Post by Duplo »

lioeters wrote: post #163
dredmorbius wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which case are you referring to?

> Britain has authorised the extradition to the United States of a student who created a website allowing people to watch films and television shows for free, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. > ..[The 23-year-old student] allegedly earned tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) through advertising on the TVShack website before it was closed down by US authorities. > The student would be the first British citizen…

All charges eventually dropped, a £20,000 fine and promise not to do it again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer

Seems he now runs a software biz.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Post by dlsso »

LarryMullins wrote: post #179
cratermoon wrote: post #40

A question about z-lib, libgen, and regular libraries Suppose I check an e-book out of my local library. Because Reasons, the library doesn't "own" unlimited "copies" of the book, so each "copy" can only be checked out to one patron at a time and if there are enough holds then a patron can't renew a checked out book. In short, ebooks in libraries are just like regular paper books, except to you don't have leave your…

Of the past twenty ebooks I've downloaded, 18 have dead authors and only one is alive. Unless you focus on the very latest releases, most authors are already dead. If you round up just about any list of great works from the 20th century, you'll find that most of those authors are dead and have been for years. If you like 19th century books, all of those authors are dead.

Curious about the 20th guy who is neither dead nor alive.

Re: A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

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Post by o_____________o »

leobg wrote: post #133
o_____________o wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the best off the shelf solution you've found? I've been trying a few different apps to read my queued articles to me, but all of the voices are awful.

iOS: Voice Dream Reader. Use Ivona “Amy” or “Joey”. Also allows annotations such as comments and highlights and exporting your annotations.

That's the one I've been using mostly, but am fairly displeased with the voices. GP's point about nice samples that fall apart in real use is accurate.
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