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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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Post by OOPMan »

areoform wrote: post #220
pilimi_anna wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 so much for your efforts! I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it. Something that, - is resilient (can survive a nuclear explosion) - requires no power - doesn't require software to read/reboot from - (theoretically) lasts for at least 1 billion years Copying from the Long Now Foundation's projects, I think we can achieve the…

A multi-billion year backup is probably pointless.

The earth will be uninhabitable in that time frame due to changes in the atmosphere and beyond that the sun itself will complete it's lifecycle.

I know there's a big fad to "just believe" in a SF future that spans space and time but physical realities in this area are pretty rough.

I think the best thing people could do is realise that, eventually, everything ends and believing otherwise when it comes to the human race is much like believing in an afterlife.

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

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Post by moolcool »

idontwantthis wrote: post #7

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!

Heck, I'd just be happy to get an epub bundled with a physical book purchase. Most contemporary vinyl comes with digital download codes all the time, I wish books would get on that train.

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

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Post by astura »

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.

It's not "police-like," the Postal Inspectors ARE police with their own police academy, their own crime lab, and everything. They are actually one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the US.

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

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Post by beanjuiceII »

skissane wrote: post #236
notch656a wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Authorizing funding is the responsibility of the legislative branch. Wouldn't the agencies, which are executive, need to follow the prescription of congress on use of funds to investigate?

Yes. But how restrictively does Congress word its appropriations to agencies, such as the US Postal Inspection Service? If it appropriates them money "to investigate crimes", that would entitle them to spend that money on investigating any category of crime at all (including those with no clear connection to the postal service.) I haven't read the relevant appropriations and authorizations acts, so I don't know how t…

I can tell you from experience there is never a funding problem, agencies always in excess of cash, especially during democratic presidencies. So much flowing right now you can literally work on anything you want

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

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Post by wolrah »

CameronNemo wrote: post #11

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,…

Non-mobile link for those of us using desktop browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

(can someone explain to me why every site in the world will redirect mobile browsers to a limited page but won't redirect desktop browsers back to the full featured version?)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

astura wrote: post #363
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.

It's not "police-like," the Postal Inspectors ARE police with their own police academy, their own crime lab, and everything. They are actually one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the US.

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

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Post by fsiefken »

askridga666 wrote: post #268
ijkxyz wrote: post #191

oh no, i use z library to make list of books I want to read.

Use can login to 3lib with their .onion domain http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...

yes, but the onion download links fail

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

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Post by acomjean »

flyingsky wrote: post #232
bawolff wrote: post #160

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> 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. Ick. I'm sympathetic to piracy, but the moment people start to make money off of pirated works it starts to feel much mo…

> [...] but the moment people start to make money off of pirated works it starts to feel much more wrong. "Piracy" is expensive! Most people do not donate to support these things it's understandable if they decide to charge a few cents or bucks to keep the light on.

Are you suggesting people who pirate don’t want to pay?
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