Z-Library Has Been Shut Down (but still lives on Tor)

In this video I discuss the ebook service Z-Library that has recently been shut down, and its operators arrested by the DOJ (site seems to still be up on Tor)

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[xeon]

Thank God we have the FBI to keep us safe from books. And laptops, although just specific ones

[nandoxus]

This is really sad.
I downloaded a lot of books and scientific articles from it. The knowledge I got from this website really changed my life. I learned a lot of skills and I'll forever be grateful for Z-Library.

Long live the pirates

[EliteZer]

I love how the feds get involved the minute you start pirating for school. Really shows where their best interests are.

[PP-nnec]

I am a Chinese, I can testify that a lot of Chinese are absolutely heartbroken when they heard that z-lib was taken down. I use that website for almost 5 years and downloaded a few dozens books. The website was part of my life.

[BIGGERthanCHEESE]

To bypass this entirely, most colleges are switching to homework+textbook packages. You literally cannot do your own homework without paying.

[ddrei]

This is why technologies like IPFS are important. Libraries should be hosted redundantly, decentralized and in multiple countries simultaneously.

[nubilate]

the sad thing about the academic textbook industry is that the authors of the textbooks don’t even get most of the profit, but rather the publishing company. i liked zlib simply because it was a huge middle finger to the publishing companies who participated in this scummy practice.

[unsigned_long_long]

Thank you to the FBI for making me actually pay for my $679.99 text books!

[JingleJangle]

Unironically I just graduated last spring and I was getting ALL of my research material from z-library. No joke the online library services of my university were insufficient for the scope of research and various topics I wanted to cover in my paper. Knowledge, information, and education should be free. always.

[NoSquid]

I remember being forced to buy a second "textbook" that was written by my professor from the school book store in order to attend class. It was 20 pages and clearly made by hand as cheaply as possible. $80 for some papers in a 3 ring binder...and we didnt use it once. Then he offered to buy it back for $10 at the end of the class! What a scam.

[phillieseva]

What's sad is that when the US was started one of the cool ideas was to have libraries where you can check out books for free and it would be funded by the state. Why this can't exist on the Internet in some way is beyond me

[ardurabangarang]

It is really ridiculous. For one of my classes I had to buy a 40 dollar textbook. We would literally only “use” it to rip out rubrics to submit alongside our assignments. And they would also update them every year by adding some arbitrary lesson no one would ever read.

[EliteFireSaint]

Great, now my sister can decide between paying rent, buying food and utility bills or buying books.
Thanks authorities, you really look out for the little people.

[Name-mmbn]

I'm from Brazil and I can say that z-lib was a complete life saver for my studying life. Lot of books that were almost impossible to find and get the site had it and it was amazing

[oceanbytez]

I love how when normal people need law enforcement like the FBI to do their job we can just go punch sand, but when college students pirate books they go fucking insane. What a world to live in.

[bingusbongus]

Public education Big Wigs and University Oligarchs didn't like that they were losing money (royalties) from people not buying textbooks brand new every semester. So naturally they got their friends and contacts in the DoJ involved.

[inconspicuous-nobody]

Z-library was my textbook lifeline. Each of my textbooks cost upwards of $80, second hand buying isn't a good option due to edition shuffling screwing us over. (The 1 year online exercise set and exam codes are another story.) RIP zlib, you will be missed. 🏴

[birdinmotion]

Piracy will never disappear. Their hosting services, servers, and operators will always change when someone else takes up the mantle

[ZZ-qymv]

FYI to any students! You can get the older addition. Just compare it to the new edition at the library and see where the differences are. In my experience, they add a chapter and reorder the pages. Just make note of that difference and either take photos of the missing chapter or go to the library for that chapter. That’s what I did, anyway :)

[rosaliesun]

Wow, thank you social media. Now, it's impossible to enjoy books comfortably BECAUSE OF YOUR BIG MOUTHS. If they needed free online books, they can discover Zlibrary themselves (just like me)! My discovery of Zlibrary was a complete accident but when I did, I thanked God so many times, I was actually committed into becoming a forever religious person. But, no, obviously some idiot on TikTok needed to spill the big news of them finding out such a slay website. Because of them, we'll never get to use Zlibrary (without using Tor) ever again. Thanks so much, government and TikTok. I'm actually feeling so happy that I deleted TikTok ages ago.