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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 midislack »

creata wrote: post #171
midislack wrote: post #34

Doesn't really matter, you can still use TOR or IPFS or i2p. Like with KiwiFarms.

Actually, how did KiwiFarm's usage stats change after they practically got kicked off the web?

Same number of users, it’s not like it’s hard to use Tor Browser. 8chan is still up on Tor too.

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Post by chuchana »

xaedes wrote: post #402
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.

In Germany we have this propaganda word "Raubkopie" for pirated copies translating to "rob copy", like a copy that was acquired through robbing, i.e. through use of force. It is quite ironic considering who really ab/uses the legal monopoly of force to rob others of their copies.

Seems like an adaptation of the word piracy, probably to make the word more compact. "Seeräuber" - another german word for pirate - translates to "sea-robber", and I've never heard of pirates sneaking onto boats to make copies of things without leaving a trace.

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

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Post by midislack »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #395
midislack wrote: post #34

Doesn't really matter, you can still use TOR or IPFS or i2p. Like with KiwiFarms.

You think a site getting their domain seized doesn't matter?

Exactly. Not even a bit. It’s just if you don’t kowtow to globohomo you have to use the darknet now. Which is good, drives more people off the clearweb and hurts our censors and nannies.

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Post by candreasen »

chaxor wrote: post #378
primax wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably 'I want to archive books'. Not 'I want end to end privacy for anyone clicking on my plain text site with a few torrent links.

TLS doesn't matter / isn't needed here right? The IP address is still in the header from what I understand. So the only thing https can hide is the content, such as a credit card or password that you enter into the site. The fact that it's a plaintext website that doesn't change means that the exact same information is encoded in simply giving the IP address as there is in knowing that someone looked around the site…

It also hides what URLs you visited. Depending how the hosting is implemented, just being able to see the IP, or even the domain name, wouldn't show what you were doing, but if it's in plaintext, they can see exactly what pages were visited and files downloaded

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Post by only4here »

I always loved downloading them DRM-free. Because it felt like I had actually owned it instead of just reading it from some website that could snatch it back at any second. I know Library Genesis is still up and running fine, but this is a warning of things that could happen.

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

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Post by CyberDildonics »

midislack wrote: post #513
CyberDildonics wrote: post #395

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think a site getting their domain seized doesn't matter?

Exactly. Not even a bit. It’s just if you don’t kowtow to globohomo you have to use the darknet now. Which is good, drives more people off the clearweb and hurts our censors and nannies.

If it doesn't matter, why does anyone buy a domain?

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Post by CyberDildonics »

midislack wrote: post #511
creata wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, how did KiwiFarm's usage stats change after they practically got kicked off the web?

Same number of users, it’s not like it’s hard to use Tor Browser. 8chan is still up on Tor too.

You think no users dropped off when a site became only usable through Tor? What are you basing that on?

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Post by dredmorbius »

prox wrote: post #344
hanniabu wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On earth clay tablets have done a great job The ones that survived

Yeah, but they didn’t even try preserving it! Lots were found in average storerooms and so on.

With some irony, tablets subjected to the usual destroyer of documents, fire, survive even better as they're vitrified.
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