I was never going to buy the book anyway.
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
#32Purchased 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!
My wife has a Kindle, we wanted to buy an ebook to support the author but didn't want to go through Amazon anymore because it's Amazon. So we tried buying from Kobo and surprise surprise, they only work with their ereaders because of their shitty DRM! So now Kobo has permanently lost us as a customer too. Great job there folks!
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#33Purchased 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!
> I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase! Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites. They really don't want books easily disseminated DRM free on warez sites. Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how 'fast' you are at reading. Welcome to 1984.
Warez means specifically software piracy. So pirating ebooks is not warez
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#34Doesn't really matter, you can still use TOR or IPFS or i2p. Like with KiwiFarms.
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase! Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites. They really don't want books easily disseminated DRM free on warez sites. Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how 'fast' you are at reading. Welcome to 1984.
> Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how 'fast' you are at reading. Does anyone do this? I don't see how it's relevant beyond "wow! you reading speed increased 5% this month" in emails from the Kindle service. Maybe they target ads for "read better and faster in 90 days" if you're in the 10th percentile on reading speed?
It could also be a useful proxy for density/interestingness of the material (when adjusted for your typical reading speed). Fed into a recommender system it might produce better outputs and more purchases.
It could also be sold to publishers as part of a tool to determine the above prior to publishing; what if books were optimized for your attention?
Pleasant or not, there are plenty of uses for the data.
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh wow. that's awful. Anyone have the actual IPs? that's what matters if the servers and IP addresses aren't seized.
> Anyone have the actual IPs? The site can't be reached with a bare IP z-lib.org 66.212.148.115 www.z-lib.org 66.212.148.115 Their DNS resolver indicates it was seized: ns1.seizedservers.com hostmaster@seizedservers.com
OK. Cheers for that information. Tor it is then, and I'll self-host the DB.
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#37Purchased 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!
My wife has a Kindle, we wanted to buy an ebook to support the author but didn't want to go through Amazon anymore because it's Amazon. So we tried buying from Kobo and surprise surprise, they only work with their ereaders because of their shitty DRM! So now Kobo has permanently lost us as a customer too. Great job there folks!
Kobo doesn’t force books to use DRM, for example: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-way-of-kings-1
Tor Publishing Group
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Imprint: Tor Books
ISBN: 9781429992800
Language: English
Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free)
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase! Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites. They really don't want books easily disseminated DRM free on warez sites. Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how 'fast' you are at reading. Welcome to 1984.
Warez means specifically software piracy. So pirating ebooks is not warez
> Warez means specifically software piracy. So pirating ebooks is not warez
Warez sites often link to more than just software. Software may or may not be the primary focus. Terminology evolves.
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#39In 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.
Until it didn't.
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#40Purchased 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!
Yes they do but it's extremely hard to find drm free books.