I guess in 2022 "don't ever travel to countries that have extradition agreements with US" should've already been #0 opsec rule, above everything else.
Sad for them. Does anyone know if Z-library provided torrent dumps?
Sad for them. Does anyone know if Z-library provided torrent dumps?
https://visaguide.world/visa-free-countries/russian-passport...
China, Cuba, and Russia would be the ideal choices if you're on the run from US authorities.
(this is specific to Z-library)
Russia is out. Some books on the platform directly contradicts government ideals, and it seems that the operators aren't willing to filter it out.
China might be a safe case, but recently they have cared for IP (at least for literary things, industrial processes are another matter) because they have multiple industries that China saw as beneficial (both audiovisual and literacy, including comics) so they could evade US authorities but might get sentenced by Chinese authorities anyway.
I don't know enough about Cuba to comment.
Any source on this specific claim (ie. not Russian censorship writ large)? I get that Russia is unpopular right now, but is this just conjecture?
Also, generally information critical to the government, information on suicide, information on banned substances (this is the official reason why the Russian Wikipedia is banned), and information on making bombs and adjacent terror-related devices is also controlled, but I believe Z-library (and LibGen) don't host much of it.
The last thing I had paid attention to was the Russian government lifting the blocks on RuTracker, the most popular Russian-language torrent site, in reaction to the sanctions—to which RuTracker responded back by blocking Russia on their end [1].
But yeah, in that sense, it would seem that keeping people happy, having access to entertainment, scientific material, etc., and retaliation is more important than the ridiculous anti-LGBT laws right now. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I would think Russia does not pose a massive threat to Z-Lib and LibGen right now.
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[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/rutracker-found-itself-unblocked-in...
Don't believe that is true for libgen, plenty of content critical of Russia, Putin, and also content that will teach you to make bombs on there.
I feel bad for the arrested; even if their values were not pristine. Punishments for these kind of “offences” seem extremely harsh to me, being grown in a copyright-unaware climate.
Maybe not the actual government, but from saving in dollars to travelling we are very pro-american.
If we divide the world in pro-america, pro-europe, pro-rusia, pro-china, for us is Europe and America, and very far away the other options.
So, bad luck for this guy. Bro, Che Guevara died decades ago...
Of course there’s your standard disagreements between neighbors but, as far as I know, there’s no outright hostilities going on. Well, outside of some rebels and narco groups. Not like the 80s where the Soviets were stirring up trouble at least.
Brazil left despises the US after the coup. Bolivian right wants more US help to do another
Venezuela gov despises the US
Chilean left looks down on the US
Argentinian left is not US friendly, at most could be seen as transactional with the US. They really need help from world bank and imf
Bolivian left abhors the US, Bolivian right wants US support for a new coup
Paraguay is just doing its drug smuggling like they always do
Uruguay is in the process of signing a free trade agreement with China while US southern command is trying to avoid it from happening
Peruvian left is not friendly to US, Peruvian right has been working with US assistance against Peruvian left for a while to try and kneecap it
Ecuador is famously very anti-US and wouldn't deport Assange until he became excessibly annoying to deal with in the embassy
Colombia is a US puppet oligarchy. New gov is interesting, but it is still an oligarchy
Panama is a defacto neo-colony of the US
Puerto Rico is a literal colony of the US
Centro América with exception of México is a mishmash of neo-colonies literally using USD as their base currencies or detest the US in some form
So yeah...
Not an option for a majority of people who would host an online library, sadly. You can’t live happily in Moscow at the moment if you are capable of intellectual labour.
They didn't, but pilimi.org does (have to access via Tor to get the torrents). That said, there have been 0 seeders since the original ZLib bust. https://twitter.com/AnnaArchivist/status/1592654308516179970 (pilimi author) says there should be an http mirror now, and I'm probably stupid but I can't find it anywhere. Seems to me it's the end of Z-Library. The end of an era, really.
I sincerely hope Anna stays safe though. They can (and will) come for her and her team too.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1991/02/john-gotti-joe-colum...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB834595561730973500
Yes but at the end of the day there is nothing you can do about because there is no constitutional right to be a fugitive and the country you were kidnapped from either doesn’t care or isn’t competent enough to do anything about it.