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IIRC Z-library is a LibGen mirror that is faster than other mirrors but is also much more monetized with more ads, limited free downloads, and premium plans.

Something else weird about this story is why did they move to a country that has an extradition agreement with the US? There are plenty of countries that would ignore US pressure to arrest them.

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> Z-Library is a popular (and illegal) library. They have taken the Library Genesis collection and made it easily searchable. On top of that, they have become very effective at soliciting new book contributions, by incentivizing contributing users with various perks. They currently do not contribute these new books back to Library Genesis. And unlike Library Genesis, they do not make their collection easily mirrorable, which prevents wide preservation. This is important to their business model, since they charge money for accessing their collection in bulk (more than 10 books per day).

(http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html)

I don't know their specific reasons, but I know of some transnational companies that since the start of the russian invasion dissolved their russian division and told their employees to choose from a list of countries to relocate.

Argentina is very easy to migrate to (the preamble to our constitution marks the spirit of a nation "free for all men that want to live here") and quality of life isn't that bad.

it seems like their collection began as a libgen mirror, but expanded far beyond it (and was definitely heavily monetized)

the move might've had something to do with mobilization in russia, though I'm just guessing

If you have no idea what you're talking about, post your comment as a question instead of a statement full of inaccurate misconceptions

Could you expand on what's inaccurate? I have honestly been very confused about all this Z-Library news because it struck me as being... well, a profit-motivated knockoff of libgen. With the number of users it has I assume it offers advantages I don't know about?

but that's just something you made up! you've never seen any evidence they're profitable

I've used both libgen and z-library to search for books over the last year. Maybe a hundred of books, mostly old fiction works (translated) in English and French (authors like Joseph Roth or Aleksandr Kouprin). Z-lib had much more results than libgen.

I've read several times that z-library is a fork of libgen and that their contents are similar, but that's not my experience at all.

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