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Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages" (z-library.se)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Did torrents become extinct? Or even something like ipfs?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Torrents aren't a great option for a niche thing that doesn't have a wide audience.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

8 20TB drives in a Z2 array

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Torrents suck for things that aren't all that popular. Once the last seeder stops seeding, that torrent is useless.

[–] oyenyaaow 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

torrents can definitely die. no seeders = no life.