so basically in the late 90s irc was kicking big and there was a thing about "can law enforcement spy on irc channels" and shit and there was some public debate about messageboards and shit and it was determined that because irc was a live chat but also a semi private one, all servers are privately hosted and one has to seek them out, that it amounted to a private conversation

so, unless it no longer stands, conversation in irc are protected for privacy unless you are talking about national security shit but if you want to trade files that requires a warrant in other words nobody is going to pull a warrant for you downloading a book and as far as i know nobody has ever been sued by an industry honeypot thing like the mpaa used to do

so if you want to download illegal shit irc is the way to go just need a client that can utilize DCCC

books and comics and rpgs and textbooks are all things pretty commonly traded on irc you just join a server and do "@search Den of Vipers" and you'll get a zip with a text file that shows all the bots in the channel serving you your reverse harem smut book Den of Vipers and you just copy and paste one of the bots command to download it and bam you are done its not that hard and works a bit quicker for small files like books than other avenues of piracy

then you can use clibre to organize and read your reverse harem smut boot Den of Vipers right on your computer or use that same program to transfer it to an ereader device - i recommend Kobo readers they are competitively priced and easier to use pirated shit on that amazon personally i use a kobo libre 2 i just had to install a calibre plugin that converts the books to the kobo format when they transfer but thats pretty much it