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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Speak for yourself. ACAB.
This eerily reminds of books burning.
It’s more like if a landlord canceled the leases on a bunch of properties that a chain of privately owned libraries was renting.
“keep your books but you can’t keep them here” in a way.
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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.
I mean the last seizure was by ICE+FBI
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That was the time when z-lib was easily accessible on the clearnet, the time when their links was short?
I am sorry. But who is doing this and why?
Copyright trolls, because they can. Maybe Z-library should do better so this cannot happen in the first place.
Ikr? What are we paying Z library so mu–
Hold on a second…
I couldn’t find anything, just clicking around. Does z library not have a mechanism for others to make backups of its data? It looks like generally there are lots of limits around downloading, which makes sense. Most people need a handful of books. But without full data backups spread around multiple data hoarding nerds systems globally. When the inevitable day comes that the whole thing gets shut down they’ll be nothing to bring back
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.
With the Z-Lib app (v1.10.1(17) atm) you can get 10 daily downloads without signing up.
They’re still up, but you have to pay a subscription to download. At least that’s what the webisode I found said.
Is it still possible to get personal domains working? I know they had them before but not sure if they still do
I really hope they have backups.
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
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.
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.
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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…
Dude you’re sending this to the wrong person. Check who you’re replying to in this thread 😅.
My guy, you’re digging your own hole. I’m honored, though.
Oh wow, no joke. Let’s try this blocking feature then
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 🤔
