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Post by krisoft »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #425
krisoft wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they'll be carved and stored deep underground. But of course you need some marker then on the ground so people know where to look for it later if they want to read the data. Maybe some artwork? A giant monolith perhaps?

A giant pyramid, they can last thousands of years even in our aggressive environment, much more in the weak Martian weather.

I love that. Should we dig in the Cydonia region on Mars? :)

Perhaps at the D&M pyramid?

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia04745-the-cydonia-dm-pyra...

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Post by collegeburner »

Ruthalas wrote: post #412
freefaler wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why doesn't students pull their funds for 1 book and then scan it and use that electronic copy? (and may be return/resell the physical book)?

That's not a bad plan from a cost perspective, though scanning a 200+ page textbook is reasonably complex, and very time consuming.

it's doable cuz most unis have nice scanning equipment u can use for free in the library. i have literally made over $1000 in a semester scanning a textbook nobody had PDFed and reselling it electronically. it wasn't even offered in digital format by the publisher.

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

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Post by pilimi_anna »

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…

https://archmission.org is doing something like this. It's a super cool project, and they work with the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, etc.

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

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Post by yencabulator »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #217
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…

I'm not so sure there was commercial intent. Their policy was basically around discouraging datahoarders and scrapers as far as I could tell. If I recall correctly, the limit was something like 10 e-books per day per ip address. Not really a huge limit when you consider that there was no limit on file size for things like graphic novels. They never required accounts, and the only thing locked behind a required donati…

> 10 e-books per day per ip address

That's a silly policy in a world of shared VPN endpoints and Tor exit nodes.

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

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Post by musicale »

selcuka wrote: post #19
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,…

> Nice try, I guess :/ It has worked so far.

thepiratebay.org seems to be fairly resilient

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

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Post by musicale »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #440
ccine wrote: post #200

I have tried my best to skim through all the discussions and no one seems to have noticed the demand for zlibrary in third world countries. In a country like China, it is the only avenue for most researchers and students at the bottom to gain expertise. When you talk about classism, you should not ignore such groups.

I find it interesting how the domain of things people think they're entitled to is constantly expanding. As usual, at someone else's expense and backed by all sorts of rationalization.

The UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Article 19:

"freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers"

Universal library access over the internet seems to qualify.

Article 17:

"Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property."

Says nothing about "intellectual property".

Article 23:

"Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection."

Doesn't ban libraries, but says that authors have a right to fair pay.

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Post by addminztrator »

ccine wrote: post #200

I have tried my best to skim through all the discussions and no one seems to have noticed the demand for zlibrary in third world countries. In a country like China, it is the only avenue for most researchers and students at the bottom to gain expertise. When you talk about classism, you should not ignore such groups.

This is such a good point. Many of us may be able to afford a couple hundred dollars for a textbook but people in poorer countries don't. Without services like Libgen and Z-lib, we are effectively restricting access to information and only making it available to an affluent class who can afford it. In my opinion, the information should flow freely... Aaron Schwartz pretty much gave his life for this principle.

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Post by addminztrator »

DeathArrow wrote: post #357

Don't use US based domains if you suspect there might be a possibility in the future that some US agency or entity can seize you domains? Applies for any other jurisdiction.

You can use decentralized alternative domain name systems. OpenNIC is completely decentralized and there are a few projects which implement DNS on a blockchain, that would be the best solution to this kind of a problem.

https://blog.cpanel.com/what-is-a-decentralized-domain-name-...

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Post by sansan81 »

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…

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