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Why the hell is this site not https? Note the first blog post was in 2022. No https in 2022? Red flag. This looks like a honeypot to me And for the record, z library gets its books from libgen? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was just a frontend?
Z library extended the libgen collection (apparently without contributing back to it).
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As you said, you "copy" the answer, you don't "steal" it.
You steal the author's investment in time and effort to write the book and conceive it's content. How you steal (making a copy) doesn't affect the fact that you prevent the author to get his share or reward from it.
If you don't pay me, you're stealing from me.
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Any instruction that involves "Google X" (or even a general term "Install Y"), is not a good instruction. It is like a maze - easy to go once you know the path. Otherwise - dozens of subtle things that can go wrong, at each step (e.g. installing a different version of Y, or to a wrong path, etc). The best instructions can have descirptions, but also contains a FULL list of command lines instructions, ideally without…
I usually tend to agree, but in this case the link would be a link to pirated content and would quickly get the site taken down. So "google XYZ" is the only viable way here
"After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine."
I have seen this type of messages a few times on growkits.
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and the usability/UX is horrible.
I use Mastodon a lot now. It has greatly improved vs years ago but yes it still lags behind what closed silos can do. The main reason for this is lack of an economic model to fund polish. Same is true for all the other FOSS decentralized things.
Be warned that IPFS is not anonymous, and the IP addresses of the nodes serving the content are quite easily obtainable. And since the FBI already got involved and arrested people, this is quite the risky endeavor.
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I guess the elephant in the room is that you're not paying the authors for what they created; in this sense it's like "stealing". Someone spends time and resources making something and you use that something without compensating that someone. I agree it's not exactly like stealing (that's why we invented a different word for it), bt ut's still something that is unfair to the book author(s).
I think it's worthwhile to be precise when we argue. Saying it's not stealing isn't necessarily saying it's harmless or that it's not illegal. It's just not the same sort of action. Eg, if you steal a book from a shelf, then it's gone. The shop can no longer sell it to anyone else, and needs to obtain a replacement. The customer that really need it may not be able to get it now. But if a 10 year old from a dirt poor…
Just to be sure: do you think that if people can't afford something that's not physically tangible they should be entitled (or at least permitted) to have it free of charge, because they wouldn't buy it anyway? I wouldn't buy (and probably wouldn't afford) a 30-day stay at the most luxurious spa in my country, should I insist that they let me enter anyway?
Be warned that IPFS is not anonymous, and the IP addresses of the nodes serving the content are quite easily obtainable. And since the FBI already got involved and arrested people, this is quite the risky endeavor.
Another warning: IPFS is extremely resource intensive (from CPU to bandwidth) . I’m pretty disappointed they didn’t mention this in the article. If this gets any traction it will eat as much CPU and bandwidth you give it. Running with Docker and limiting CPU is necessary along with a bandwidth limiter/policer/shaper. Having run IPFS for a long while it also ends up in strange states and stops responding to requests.…
TBH i love IPFS, and i wish i could get behind it and help.. but ever since they starting making Crypto i have moved away from it. I have no way of knowing if they're working on IPFS or if it's merely a means to a Coin.
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Another warning: IPFS is extremely resource intensive (from CPU to bandwidth) . I’m pretty disappointed they didn’t mention this in the article. If this gets any traction it will eat as much CPU and bandwidth you give it. Running with Docker and limiting CPU is necessary along with a bandwidth limiter/policer/shaper. Having run IPFS for a long while it also ends up in strange states and stops responding to requests.…
There's a new project to make IPFS very performant (within limitations of the protocol, ofc). They've got some really great goals, hope they succeed. TBH i love IPFS, and i wish i could get behind it and help.. but ever since they starting making Crypto i have moved away from it. I have no way of knowing if they're working on IPFS or if it's merely a means to a Coin.
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I guess the elephant in the room is that you're not paying the authors for what they created; in this sense it's like "stealing". Someone spends time and resources making something and you use that something without compensating that someone. I agree it's not exactly like stealing (that's why we invented a different word for it), bt ut's still something that is unfair to the book author(s).
There is an artist's gallery in my town. The artist sells lots of pieces (or tries to; no idea how successful). If I go and look at each piece, really take it in and absorb it fully and internalize it, but buy nothing, have I done the thing that's not exactly like stealing? If I download a PDF and read it and then delete it as soon as I am done, have I done the thing that is not exactly like stealing? If I go to a li…
I just wonder why all that can't be uploaded into Library Genesis? They already have the distribution part sorted out (IPFS, Torrent, even ed2k!).
Most of it probably is on libgen. Putting all the eggs into one basket doesn't seem like a good move when booksharing sites keep getting shut down.
We are happy to announce that we have gotten all books that were added to the Z-Library between our last mirror and August 2022. We have also gone back and scraped some books that we missed the first time around. All in all, this new collection is about 24TB, which is much bigger than the last one (7TB). Our mirror is now 31TB in total. Again, we deduplicated against Library Genesis, since there are already torrents available for that collection.