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ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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In an effort to prevent blacklisting of domains (oftentimes by internet providers at the DNS-level in accordance with legal procedures), Z-Library uses a homepage at a memorable domain. The homepage does not contain any infringing content, but instead lists many working mirror domains for different regions. These domains can be switched and do not need to be as memorable. For instance, some include numbers.

Nice try, I guess :/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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This link doesn’t explain much. And at least in Canada, doesn’t show any seizure notice.

Try this link: http://es.b-ok.lat/

It says seized, however, this is the first time I've seen a .lat TLD. I wonder if this is Latin America or Latvia

edit: found it! cool!

> .lat is an Internet generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

#13
At least there is still tor. loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd .onion

Update:

The z-library wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library) lists the following zlib onion domain which doesn't require a login:

zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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post #12
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try this link: http://es.b-ok.lat/

It says seized, however, this is the first time I've seen a .lat TLD. I wonder if this is Latin America or Latvia edit: found it! cool! > .lat is an Internet generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.lat

What is interesting is that this does not appear to be a Verisign operated domain. The operator appears to be based entirely outside the US. I wonder how difficult it was to seize the domain.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

#17

Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe's shitty app, you can't share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow. I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!

DRM-free eBooks do exist, don't lump them all together!

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

#18

Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe's shitty app, you can't share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow. I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!

Why is it guaranteed? I have been buying ebooks for more than 10 years and they still work.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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In an effort to prevent blacklisting of domains (oftentimes by internet providers at the DNS-level in accordance with legal procedures), Z-Library uses a homepage at a memorable domain. The homepage does not contain any infringing content, but instead lists many working mirror domains for different regions. These domains can be switched and do not need to be as memorable. For instance, some include numbers. Nice try,…

> Nice try, I guess :/

It has worked so far.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says seized, however, this is the first time I've seen a .lat TLD. I wonder if this is Latin America or Latvia edit: found it! cool! > .lat is an Internet generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.lat What is interesting is that this does not appear to be a Verisign operated domain. The operator appears to be based entirely outside the US. I wonder how difficult it was to seize the domain.

Countries outside of US diplomacy often are amenable to financial diplomacy.
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