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.
Imagine working on taking Z library down as your day job and still sleeping at night. Scum of the earth.
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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.
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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
hostsfile 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.
Did torrents become extinct? Or even something like ipfs?
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.
torrents can definitely die. no seeders = no life.
Torrents aren’t a great option for a niche thing that doesn’t have a wide audience.
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
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.
I really hope they have backups.
Z-Library also states in the blog post that they did not lose the files, just the domains
