Today we are forced to share some sad news - yesterday many of our domains were seized again. We should highlight that the majority of the seized domains were not mirrors of the Z-Library website. Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world, and their blocking is perplexing. For instance, these domains included books in Tamil, Mongolian, Catalan, Urdu, Pashto, and other languages:
Over the 15 years of the project’s existence, we’ve managed to collect an impressive collection of rare texts in many uncommon languages. These domains featured many unique texts that can’t be found anywhere else, including rare books, documents, and manuscripts. All of this is a priceless heritage, contributing to the preservation and study of world cultures, and serving as important material for researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and history.
Z-Library also states in the blog post that they did not lose the files, just the domains.
Nothing in here is as perplexing as dumbasses behind Z-library not “hosting” their files on Usenet and Bittorrent to ensure that this can’t be blocked unless feds turn off internet globally.
Heads up, this guy is a troll picking fights for no reason. Don’t try to engage him, he only replies with deflection and insults. Check out his profile
Oh wow, no joke. Let’s try this blocking feature then
What he said was abrasive but not entirely wrong. Tempted to say you’re the troll for looking up people’s histories as your only proof of anything.
He’s obsessed with me because everything I say is true and truth makes brainlets mad.
It’s amusing that on a Piracy community, someone will go ahead and block me, you clowns are no better than companies who screech about piracy in the first place.
Maybe I should go contribute in working to get Z-library taken down because it’s a piece of shit that tries to monopolize books via DDL’s instead of making it a decentralized effort because even bypassing blocks must be monopolized…
My guy, you’re digging your own hole. I’m honored, though.
Dude you’re sending this to the wrong person. Check who you’re replying to in this thread 😅.
Call me what you like. Or ignore me entirely. I’m just passing along the message
Call me what you like
Kind of ironic considering I’m reusing your own words.
👍
Completely agree that this guy is a troll, but a check of his profile shows that the person who engages with them the most is you.
You’re right. I was one of the first people he talked to, on a post yesterday about the paradox of tolerance where he proclaimed that his sole reason for existence is to be an asshole to people who call themselves tolerant.
We argued back and forth for awhile, but I eventually clocked him as a troll and I really just want to see if I can get him to burn out.
Also want to give people a heads up so that they don’t end up in the same loop I did at first. This guy is pretty vile. Just today he denied that the holocaust was even that bad because “not all the jews died”
I get it, just pointing out that you should be following your own advice on this as there is no point in feeding the trolls. Just block and move on bro. No point following them around lemmy engaging with them at every opportunity. People are smart enough to work it out for themselves.
I’ll take your advice into consideration. I probably will when I get bored of it. I’m actually quite amused just wasting this guy’s time at the moment
Well the rest of us just see two trolls instead of one so don’t expect anyone to treat you favourably when you’re acting just as bad as the original troll.
That’s a perfectly fair conclusion. But I don’t mind. I’m not really trying to impress anyone
I see, making fun of clowns who don’t understand why centralized database for books is retarded is “trolling”.
Goodluck with your eggs in one basket idea, don’t tell me that I didn’t tell you so when Z-library fails, and it will, because it can’t even keep few domains up, lmfao.
I mean their stuff is all there, you could upload it for them
Ah yes, I could just make millions of torrents by DDLing one by one through their shitty web UI because retards who have database and files all on their servers aren’t willing to do it.
What an amazing idea…
You clowns clearly don’t care about preserving books.
Doesn’t really sound like you do either. Sounds like you just want to feel superior about pointing it out 🤔
Imagine working on taking Z library down as your day job and still sleeping at night. Scum of the earth.
I was just following orders
You know, funny thing, due to our values, if somebody says that he/she is going to be a police, or work on a government job, we appraise him:
- Good! You will sustain yourself with a stable salary, congrats again!
But in reality those people have to do what their management will tell them, and it’s rarely the thing good for society, otherwise they will lose their job.
We should change our values.
Speak for yourself. ACAB.
You can’t even imagine the amount of problems a simple grunt can cause in any given process, without going against orders.
Following due process is often enough to bog down processes to a point whatever is being done is rendered useless when finally achieved.
Lol what? You’re saying government jobs rarely provide value to society?
Police officer: yes.
Fireman: no.
There are more countries in the world besides America, where any chump can get into “law enforcement” after 6 weeks of trainning.
In most of the world, getting a badge implies a serious and throughrough selection and scrutiny process.
You have obviously never worked as a police officer and are making this up.
Grew up surronded by law enforcement
As a criminal or family member? I guess either way I was still right.
Those darn park rangers
Meh government jobs can be depressing from what I’ve heard. The big thing is that many who work in government have watched over the years how multiple parties and various personalities fail to bring meaningful change and I can only imagine how depressing it is. It is no doubt that a government job, much like teaching is meant to be symbolic as a position of caretaking so to speak, but one with more authority than real inspiration and information.
The next big thing in my mind is the evolution of government systems, ie the human body and mind has already managed to become versatile enough to adapt itself across a variety of ecosystems, the next big thing will be how our systems adapt to the human circumstances on a large scale in a manner that will not be controlled or directed by a single authority like a government, but by a anarchic democratic meritocracy where the more material knowledge and capability you can provide the group the more information and transparency is given to you for further investment into the system you are part of or rely on.
Yes I’m drunk lol
Is it still possible to get personal domains working? I know they had them before but not sure if they still do
Did torrents become extinct? Or even something like ipfs?
torrents can definitely die. no seeders = no life.
You can find torrents here if you’re willing to seed 181TB for the full dataset, or 43TB for just zlibrary https://annas-archive.org/torrents
Jesus, how is it even possible to have 181TB on a single computer?
8 20TB drives in a Z2 array
Lots of drives 😜 It’s not so unimaginable on servers but less so on personal computers.
Torrents aren’t a great option for a niche thing that doesn’t have a wide audience.
Torrents suck for things that aren’t all that popular. Once the last seeder stops seeding, that torrent is useless.
I once left a torrent on for ~three years at 50%, obviously no one seeded that anymore. one day i realised it was completed, and i have no idea when. now i only streamed my high sea amusements, i don’t even have a torrent client on anymore, but i like to think that the three copies seeded from mine (based on uploaded data) is still out there somewhere.
Given that domain seizure is becoming such a common tool for this sort of thing, maybe we need a work around for DNS?
For example, we could distribute z-library name/IP pairs in the form of a
hosts
file via torrents and then write little wrapper programs for each OS that would just crawl the DHT for the latest version to update your local hosts file.A more extreme option would be to build a pirate browser that has a bunch of name/IP pairs baked into it. People could just launch the browser and visit websites as usual without DNS being an issue.
I’m aware that using Tor is also an option, but there’s a bunch of problems there with usability like installation and setup (for non-technical people). Onion URLs aren’t easily discoverable either, and much of what you find in there just kids cosplaying as digital freedom fighters posting links that load really slowly… at least that was my experience the last time I tried out a TOR browser.
What you’re looking for is an alternative DNS root. Although I despise the blockchain, crypo and web3 world with every fiber of my being due to the entire scam ecosystem built into everything, decentralized DNS could be one of the only legit applications of blockchains as a technology. No court can order blockchains to take down domains, much like how no court can order Bitcoin to reverse transactions. You don’t have the private key to change the domain? Too bad, fuck off.
Bittorrent already doesn’t depend on DNS. Any clown solution that depends on DDL will always be inferior to just straight up Bittorrent.
You know what? Insulting people isn’t helping. I’m just going to block you.
I didn’t insult anyone but yeah since you feel attacked go ahead, snowflake.
2 day old account, -1000 points
Obvious troll is obvious
I love how you follow up the “I didn’t insult anyone” defense immediately with an insult. Can’t help yourself?
Check out his other comments in this thread. Guy definitely cannot help himself lol.
That is so so so dumb that it’s actually impressive that you decided to add on being a dick to top it off.
Although I agree that bit torrent is a good protocol, DDL is still a valuable method of maintaining mass accessibility, and an important aspect of transport as it requires next to no background skills or knowledge, it’s also symbolic to the concept that many people simply do not believe piracy is necessarily a crime unless it turns a profit, or prevents or reduces a sale from occurring.
Why are libraries still existing despite all the wild cunt kings high on their own megalomania who’ve gone and burned libraries and attempted to destroy civilization?
I really hope they have backups.
Z-Library also states in the blog post that they did not lose the files, just the domains
I didn’t know Zlibrary was still up. I got too confused when they went down and was never sure how to get back in. Ended up paying pocket for the remainder of my textbooks.
You can use Annas Archive as alternative. More content.
With the Z-Lib app (v1.10.1(17) atm) you can get 10 daily downloads without signing up.
Wouldn’t it be possible to move the entire library into the dark web and leave just a few snorkels behind?
Or move it to a model similar to zeronet?
Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world
All of this is a priceless heritage, contributing to the preservation and study of world cultures, and serving as important material for researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and history.
I’d be curious to take a look once it comes back up
They didn’t explicitly say this, but if I’m reading it correctly, these were seized by the FBI? wtf
Yes, FBI in Partnership with Austrian cybercrime seized the domains. They haven’t commented in public on the reasons for that step. News portals link it to a court case against ZLibrary in a US state, but that’s speculation.