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Z-Library on New Domain

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I'd be wary of using this site and stick w/ the onion sites linked on the Wiki page until we know this is actually "official" [1] [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ytqzy0/eli5_zlibi...

Is there anything that makes it a legit library instead of just a piracy operation?

Like do they buy copies of ebooks and only allow as many simultaneous readers as they have books?

They're not pretending not to be.

Is there anything proving this is actually Z-lib and not just a clone of it? Weren't the people running the site supposedly arrested?

I don't think this is a legit mirror. There's no results on any book I tested that works on the Tor link.

That looks not legit:

- create urgency with timer

- my login details don't work

- full of ads

- requires login before searching

It appears that it have much more ads than the original page, am I correct or I just miss remember?

Might depend on your choice of adblocker. Looking fine to me using ublock origin on desktop and Adguard content blockers + Mullvad's DNS blockers on iOS

If this is true then I am going to question the integrity of the site after being raided or whatever in Argentina. No reason they should ask people to help host something that they are also running ads on, and the type of ads have to be bottom of the barrel.

This may not be the "official" Zlib site run by the same people. It seems like a bunch of clones have popped up, with different groups of people trying to profit off of the confusion around Zlib at the moment.

Looks like it. I also see more ads compared to before.

I have never observed ads, and still do not observe any ads on Z Library—it looks like the same old Z.

I don't see any ads

This is a scam.

If you need a search engine for libgen, the place to go is https://annas-archive.org/

Is this just a site for people to steal authors' work?

Correct. Although this particular incarnation wants you to sign in now, where the last official one required no user account. So go ahead and add harvesting email addresses and maybe passwords to the list of features.

There have been some historical incidents of pirate sites coming back online and being honeypots. Be careful out there, everyone.

No, “reading a thing without permission” is not analogous to taking a thing away from a person.

This is one of the problems with 'anti-piracy' efforts. They work under the assumption that if not for free access millions of people would have instead paid for access to their priduct.

The reality is they would not...

Is reading a thing online stealing, while reading it in the library or a bookstore is not?

Yes.

I have to give props to the single-mindedness of copyright liberation zealots who apparently have no problem putting ads on their site.

It'd be like if Beethoven began the premiere of the Ninth Symphony by taking a dump at the podium.

This is hilarious because in this analogy millions of people worldwide happily watch Beethoven take a dump because they couldn’t hear the ninth symphony otherwise. It would be the most popular version of that piece of music in many countries. Generations that would never have heard it gleefully watch him take that dump.

I have to give props to the pro-copyright zealots who apparently have no problem raiding the public domain for works.

It'd be like if Mozart wrote a piece titled "Kiss My Ass".

I watched Amadeus, didn't he?

It worked in real life, which is my point: The copyright maximalists are happy taking from the public domain while working to increase the term of copyright law.

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