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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 jerojero »

LarryMullins wrote: post #178
jerojero wrote: post #56

Something 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…

The books are free, if you download the wrong version of a book you can simply try another and it costs you no more than a minute of your time. Do you know how it worked before we had the internet for books? You had to go to a library yourself, which may have taken an hour of your day just in the journey, then hope the library had the book you wanted. If not, you may have to wait weeks for another library in the syst…

I'm describing a problem, the fact that the books are free and that this problem causes a minor inconvenience doesn't make it not a problem. It's important to be aware of these things.

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

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Post by lioeters »

Duplo wrote: post #197
lioeters wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

That's great to hear!

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

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Post by benneh »

Nican wrote: post #4

I like reading about IPFS, but I do not really have the time to learn about it and get involved. Last I remember, Z-Library was having an issue scaling the DHS to handle the number of files [1]. Did those issues get resolved? How is it going now? Also, is there anything being done to ensure every file has seeders? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716560

IPFS is not the only option available. Swarm's been making a lot of progress.

Hackernoon released a blog post comparing the two projects.

https://hackernoon.com/whats-the-difference-between-ipfs-and...

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Post by chezball »

survirtual wrote: post #14
Nican wrote: post #4

I like reading about IPFS, but I do not really have the time to learn about it and get involved. Last I remember, Z-Library was having an issue scaling the DHS to handle the number of files [1]. Did those issues get resolved? How is it going now? Also, is there anything being done to ensure every file has seeders? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716560

I’ve dived deep into IPFS and built several prototypes on top of it. It ended up not being performant enough for me, and that was after heavily modifying the codebase so that it was true p2p browser & server (their webrtc transport had a lot of issues and they didn’t seem too interested in it, but my needs required it as a backbone). The security was also a concern, and the scaling had issues. Pinning millions of sma…

@survirtual, would love to see what you used your own implementation for. Is it open source? Or a product we might be interested in?

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Post by nukemandan »

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

reported https://github.com/zlib-searcher/zlib-searcher/issues/57

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

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Post by troad »

dredmorbius wrote: post #187
troad wrote: post #136

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I am opposed to copyright in its current form, but this is a very naïve suggestion. How exactly do you distribute the fee among authors? Who collects it? How does dispute resolution work, if I don't feel like I'm being compensated fairly? Can I opt out if I don't read books? What if everyone opts out and just continues pirating? Let's say I just published one hundred books of semi-AI generated bad fiction. When can I…

Q: How exactly do you distribute the fee among authors? The model of mechanical royalties already exists in the music industry. That provides a useful model for other copyrighted works. Effectively this creates a regulated, universal, legally-defined market. I can see some variations in rates based on content types, discussed in previous HN discussions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_payment#Mechanical_ro…

> The model of mechanical royalties already exists in the music industry.

I refer to your earlier post, though:

> …could provide access to every work ever published, pay authors, and eliminate both the need and practice of piracy.

I don’t think the model of music royalties, as it exists, could or does any of those things, nor do I think the model could ever be adapted to achieve those ends.

Moreover, I don’t think in a free society there can possibly be a place for a governmental or quasi-governmental body that would somehow assess the objective quality of all art, and decide on the compensation of artists accordingly. It would mark the death of all avant-garde art, and the rise of a massive rent-seeking class of mediocre and unchallenging artists. Not to even mention the implications for speech: there’d be no more artists holding up the mirror to the face of power, no more social criticism through art.

I don’t often say this, but that is a truly chilling vision of the future. Thank God it will never happen.

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Post by netfortius »

bscphil wrote: post #105
netfortius wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a discord server now, where you will find all your answers, plus some.

If that's the case, then providing the answers should be pretty easy. Can you tell us what they are?

Sorry - missed this. "The" answers to almost all the questions in this thread could not be consolidated in a single post. Looking in the dedicated channels on the discord server dedicated to this topic will allow searching for all related info. Unfortunately posting invites in a large community like HN could only endanger the well being of the discord site - wish there was a DM option in HN (that I know of ... maybe there is?!?)

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

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Post by netfortius »

Thorentis wrote: post #104
netfortius wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a discord server now, where you will find all your answers, plus some.

Where does one find an invite to it?

Unfortunately posting invites in a large community like HN could only endanger the well being of the discord site - wish there was a DM option in HN (that I know of ... maybe there is?!?)
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