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

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Post by anhner »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #188
tarunmuvvala wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar is the case from people who can't afford. They are not asking you to give it for free. What they want is that the information accessible at affordable prices. The current situation is an ABC book either cost $10-$20-$30 or they can get it pirated. there is no middle ground. People move to piracy due to lack of affordability and options.

Ah, the downvotes from the extremely privileged (most of whom do not even realize this). I am from one of those countries where we pretty much cannot afford "legal" content. In my shitty town the median salary is something like $300, at least half of which goes towards paying rent if you don't have your own house, while we're being asked to pay prices that were established for developed countries with median salaries…

Completely agree, and most people in developed countries don't even realise or think about this.

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Post by anhner »

dfxm12 wrote: post #55
jrm4 wrote: post #22

As a lawyer, I can't recommend it, but I absolutely cannot discern any moral difference whatsoever between reading a library book for free and purchasing it later if I like it, and doing the same first thing by downloading the ebook from somewhere "unapproved." It's all very silly.

If a book (even an ebook) is in the library, it's already bought and paid for so the author gets whatever compensation they get as if it is a normal sale. I don't think arguing morals makes sense because of how subjective one's morals are, but, by using libraries, you are supporting the arts, whether you liked the book or not, and this is not a silly distinction.

Yes, I am sure the author is glad that he received 30% of a book sale that is shared between hundreds of people...

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

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Post by IceWreck »

pilimi_anna wrote: post #103
sixtyfourbits wrote: post #48

Fortunately someone had the foresight to make a backup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923 Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits. Hopefully this will…

Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup). We are working on hosting this collection, as well as saving other large collections. Please consider supporting us, donation details at http://pilimi.org (we'll set up a patreon-like system soon)

Hey, why not push the collection (the extra books) back to libgen

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

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Post by flutas »

flaviut wrote: post #88
tttttt5ts wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buy 3x 16 or 18 TB external harddrives on black Friday and shuck them. It is still going to run you $400-$500. Can't do it cheaper as far as I know.

Black Friday isn't always the best time: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B08KTRBHP1 But great advice and the route I've personally taken :)

Best source I've found is BestBuy with Easystore drives.

In fact they have 14TBs for $199.99 right now ($14.28/TB)

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-14tb-external-usb-...

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

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Post by somenameforme »

GolDDranks wrote: post #262

What surprised me was that there is something called "United States Postal Inspection Service" that has some police-like law enforcement powers. Every so often you TIL something about the US.

You should see a recent job listing for the IRS (Internal Revenue Service - tax department): https://www.newsweek.com/irs-deletes-requirement-that-new-ag...

You need to be in good physical shape, willing to work a minimum of 50 hours a week including irregular hours, be on call 24/7, and of course also not only carry a firearm but be willing to use deadly force.

I'm sure they were flooded with applicants.

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Post by tluyben2 »

midoridensha wrote: post #143
hutzlibu wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Some people are just destructive for some reason, and it's entirely from carelessness, not malice. " And then some people simply consider books as objects for use, and not sacred reliques to be touched only with glothes. (unless we are talking about historical books) I mean, books or rather the information in them is kind of sacred to me. But the physical objects are just paper, that can be printed out again, if it…

It sounds like you're one of those people who can't handle everyday objects without breaking them somehow. I'm not talking about treating things as extremely fragile, I'm just referring to being able to use and handle things without somehow destroying them in short order. The people who do this are just like you: they think it's normal and think everyone else is overly cautious, when in reality they're just a clumsy…

What nonsense. We were talking about physical books here; indeed when I went hiking in de olden days (not that many years ago), I would pack paperbacks in my backpack to read and they would not survive the trip well; it rains, the backback is tightly packed but things rub, it’s moist outside (and if you sleep in hiking huts, also inside) and sometimes things just go wrong. I also like to read in the (hot)tub and water splashes, it’s, again, moist because of steam etc. Oh, sometimes my dogs ate a book that I was reading on the couch and put aside to go for a walk etc. People have dropped teapots or beer or food on books I was reading on pub outside tables.

What has this to do with tools? Or other stuff; I have pristine computers from 70s-80s, I have handhelds like the openPandora that I used 10 years daily and look brand new. Almost all (I developed software for old phones and new phones over the last 20 years so I have many of them for testing) my mobile phones I had in my life, working still or not, look new still (the few that don’t have cracked glass). One has nothing at all to do with the other.

These days you can get water resistant e-readers and phones, so now the books don’t suffer in these circumstances; if people enjoy the physical more than the elements will still mess iup these books if you don’t read them on a couch at home. Well, the dogs…

Also, stop calling people oafs. No need for personal attacks here.

There can be many reasons for being clumsy; mental (stress/burnout), neural (Parkinson/stroke/spinal damage), physiological (rheumatism/tendon damage/nerve damage) and substance abuse. And some people are just clumsy; not much they can do about it; oaf means more (in a bad way) than just clumsy.

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

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Post by joshxyz »

pilimi_anna wrote: post #103
sixtyfourbits wrote: post #48

Fortunately someone had the foresight to make a backup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923 Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits. Hopefully this will…

Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup). We are working on hosting this collection, as well as saving other large collections. Please consider supporting us, donation details at http://pilimi.org (we'll set up a patreon-like system soon)

thank you for your work

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

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Post by joshxyz »

1dry wrote: post #230
wardedVibe wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just want a copy of the thing I paid for that I can use on whatever machine in whatever way I want without a bunch of bullshit hoops

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i pirated mp3 files back then, is ed sheeran living under a bridge now?

if youre worried about artists and authors, you got no idea how much cut publishing houses and music labels take from them.

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Post by tpxl »

tren wrote: post #255
nicolas_t wrote: post #40

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Yes they do but it's extremely hard to find drm free books.

We keep trying to push publishers to allow us to sell their ebooks DRM-free, it really is a win-win. Less customer support for us, more sales for them, no vendor lock-in for the customer. We offer completely DRM-free or watermarked content: https://www.ebooks.com/drm-free/ . I wish every publisher would embrace it.

Do you have any hard data on the benefits/drawbacks of DRM?

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

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Post by tluyben2 »

midoridensha wrote: post #227
klodolph wrote: post #166

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> (unless we are talking about historical books) You should not touch historical books with gloves. It is generally correct to use your bare hands. The reason why you would wear gloves while handling a book is to protect you, perhaps because the book has been contaminated with hazardous chemicals or something. Anyway. It is also my experience that some people completely destroy their books. I don't know how it happen…

>It is also my experience that some people completely destroy their books. I don't know how it happens. I don't think of myself as careful with books. I shove them in backpacks, insert random objects to remember my place, take them outdoors, etc. Yet somehow, the books look much the same afterwards. Yep, this is me too, and with everything else I own too. I don't treat them like museum objects, but they generally loo…

Stop calling people oafs or ‘small child’. No need for personal attacks here.

There can be many reasons for being clumsy; mental (stress/burnout), neural (Parkinson/stroke/spinal damage), physiological (rheumatism/tendon damage/nerve damage) and substance abuse. And some people are just clumsy; not much they can do about it; oaf means more (in a bad way) than just clumsy.

Seems people using objects different from how you use them triggers you. Maybe not everyone feels like washing and vacuuming their car every Saturday? Or ever? What’s it to you and how does it make them oafs?

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