this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
550 points (99.1% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

53948 readers
399 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-FiLiberapay


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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:

afrikaans-books.org

bengali-books.org

urdu-books.org

marathi-books.org

chamorro-books.org

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 01011@monero.town 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Did torrents become extinct? Or even something like ipfs?

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Jesus, how is it even possible to have 181TB on a single computer?

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Lots of drives 😜 It's not so unimaginable on servers but less so on personal computers.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

8 20TB drives in a Z2 array

load more comments (4 replies)