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

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Post by notch656a »

jrm4 wrote: post #393
dragonwriter wrote: post #85

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> It blows my mind that in a hypercapitalist society like the US, that copyrights still exist. Copyrights are a massive violation of property rights, Ah, you’ve mistaken capitalism (which had been developing for centuries earlier) with 18th century liberal economic theory, which is not its foundation but instead a rough ex-post-facto rationalization for large parts of the way it had developed. What capitalism is, tho…

Even further, all too many conflate much of the above with mere "commerce," a word I've been trying to inject into this. LITERALLY NO ONE DOES, or SHOULD, HAVE A PROBLEM WITH COMMERCE. People are always going to buy and sell things. All the other stuff is details on exactly what the rules about doing this should be.

AFAIK copyright applies even to certain materials that have not, and never will enter commerce. Of course there are certain non-commercial exceptions to US copyright law. (Note: this is not legal advice). IMO copyright law exceeds even the bounds of commerce, and thus cannot be simply called a "rule" of commerce.

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

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Post by dkjaudyeqooe »

OOPMan wrote: post #361
areoform wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 an…

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

At that point someone can just put it on a thumb drive and take it with.

It's not beyond the realm of possibility that people ultimately inhabit a spaceship that wanders the universe looking for a new home.

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

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Post by dkjaudyeqooe »

lgoex11 wrote: post #317
pilimi_anna wrote: post #126

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Note that their TOR domains are still up: http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...

They stopped being active.

Still working for me.

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

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Post by dkjaudyeqooe »

charondust wrote: post #183
pilimi_anna wrote: post #126

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Note that their TOR domains are still up: http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...

yes, and you can try to send the link to the email first and then download it in the email. It works.

Can confirm, but has a 20MB (per book) limit.

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

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Post by wholinator2 »

beanjuiceII wrote: post #360
pilimi_anna wrote: post #245

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I will make no claims about my identity one way or another. If you are worried for me, don't be. If you are worried for yourself, then please take actions in line with your risk tolerance.

thats good because i've already forwarded this to my superiors

Maybe a naive question but assuming this isn't a troll, I'm curious why?

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

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Post by dredmorbius »

defrost wrote: post #58

There are mirrors and torrents and extensions of the Z-Library collection, off the top of my head see: https://libgen.fun/ http://pilimi.org/

Note that LibGen is now a subset of Z-Library, as whilst ZLib sourced LibGen to seed itself, it's not contributed its own acquisitions back to Library Genesis.

The Pirate Library Mirror (your second link) is a complete archive of Z-Library, though it's a bulk archive of several TB and not readily accessed for individual titles. The PLM is intended as a tool for building archives rather than as a direct source itself.

(The pilimi.org link itself explains much of this.)

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

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Post by 6510 »

gilded-lilly wrote: post #223
areoform wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Why not encode them microscopically, using some kind of easily decipherable code? The main issue would be loss of language. You’d end up with a gigantic Rosetta Stone of indecipherable gibberish. Better would be to convert all literature into hieroglyphics, or graphic novels (or both), and then etch them microscopically.

Encode in dna and do roaches with random pages on their back.

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

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Post by dkjaudyeqooe »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #139
pilimi_anna wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that their TOR domains are still up: http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...

Those domains are up, but downloading doesn't work right now, possibly because their CDN uses non-onion domain names. They're timing out.

A work around for PDFs it to select "Open in Browser" from the download popup menu.

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

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Post by smsm42 »

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.

There are a lot of US agencies which have law enforcement functions - with their own armed force and powers to search, detain, seize, etc. US Postal Service has one, so does IRS, Department of Education, Library of Congress, and many other federal agencies. One could be surprised why the Postal Service is dealing with things having nothing to do with delivering mail, but mission creep is extremely common in all branches of federal government.

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

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Post by onetokeoverthe »

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

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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…

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