An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, the alleged masterminds behind Z-Library -- an e-book pirate site that claims to be "the world's largest library" -- were arrested. According to a press release yesterday from the US Department of Justice, Russian nationals Anton Nap...

Despite them not being physically in the US, not having operations in the US, and not selling the books. Just normal world police BS.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    we still got libgen at least. i'm not sure i'd be nearly as knowledgeable as i am today if i couldn't just go download the breadth of human thought on a whim. marx had to go sit in the british archives to figure out how capitalism worked. i have to type in 9 characters and it shows up at my fingertips.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      From what I hear, the TOR site for Z-library is still available. I don't have the address off hand though. I've mostly just used libgen myself.