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With nearly 12 million books, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet.<\/p>\nWith nearly 12 million books, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet.<\/p>\n
The site had millions of regular readers who found a wealth of free knowledge and entertainment at their fingertips.<\/p>\n
This success was vigorously interrupted last month when the U.S. Government seized the site\u2019s main domain names<\/a>. The problems were later exacerbated when two alleged Russian operators were arrested<\/a> as part of a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n Despite the gravity of the accusations, the public demand for pirated books hardly waned. Social media platforms, TikTok in particular<\/a>, are crawling with young people eager to gather knowledge, but less capable of paying for books. <\/p>\n In recent weeks, this situation has triggered a search for Z-Library \u2018alternatives\u2019. Some simply went to \u2018Zlib\u2019s\u2019 darknet site on the Tor network, while others experimented with IPFS<\/a>. These sites are just as illegal, of course, but harder to take down. <\/p>\n The troubles have also pushed activists trying to fill the knowledge gap under the spotlight. Anna\u2019s Archive<\/a>, for example, launched a search engine that can find pretty much any book on shadow libraries, but there are other solutions too.<\/p>\n On Telegram, \u201cultrascientist\u201d and freedom fighter \u2018Nexus\u2019 stepped up with an advanced book download bot. <\/p>\n \u201cZ-Library books are now available in @libgen_scihub_6_bot. Most credits go to Anna PiLiMi team which managed to preserve Z-Library books before recent events,\u201d Nexus wrote, illustrating the move with a militant photo.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n These types of download bots are nothing new on Telegram. Z-Library already had its own dedicated bot and many alternatives were also available. But, with rightsholders and the U.S. authorities paying close attention, announcing a new version amidst the controversy was quite a bold move.<\/p>\n Nexus\u2019s Z-Library addon for the bot was welcomed by many people but when rightsholders took notice, they clearly didn\u2019t like what they saw. At least one sent a complaint to Telegram, which pulled the popular @libgen_scihub_6_bot bot offline.<\/p>\n Those who try to access it today will get a notification informing them that the \u201cbot is unavailable due to copyright infringement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Telegram isn\u2019t decentralized so any copyright-infringing channel or bot can easily be taken offline. This isn\u2019t limited to books; we have seen dozens of IPTV-related channels disappear as well, some of which had more than 100,000 users.<\/p>\n Nexus isn\u2019t giving up that easily though. Instead of offering a single bot, they created a bot that allows anyone to create their own book download bot. This opens the door to a hydra of book download bots, which isn\u2019t easy for rightsholders to track. <\/p>\n \u201cAssholes inspired by Z-Lib troubles are sending claims about the book bot. We have the answer \u2013 now you may create your own book bot,\u201d Nexus writes, explaining their motivation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Creating a personal<\/a> book download bot is indeed<\/a> quite simple for those who have some basic knowledge of how Telegram bots work. These bots can even be totally private, making them harder to trace.<\/p>\n Nexus shared a hydra image with his announcement. In piracy circles, people regularly bring up the \u201chydra,\u201d a mythical multi-headed creature that can easily regenerate when a head is chopped off. In this case, shutting down one bot would lead to many new ones. <\/p>\n The resilience of this bot is yet to be tested but rightsholders are already paying close attention. They will do everything in their power to find a weak spot and will likely find law enforcement on their side. <\/p>\n That said, the opposition against the Z-Library takedown is real, and making the problem go away isn\u2019t as straightforward as some might have believed.<\/p>\n From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\nPirates Seek Alternatives<\/h2>\n
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![indeed<\/a> quite simple for those who have some basic knowledge of how Telegram bots work. These bots can even be totally private, making them harder to trace.<\/p>\nNexus shared a hydra image with his announcement. In piracy circles, people regularly bring up the \u201chydra,\u201d a mythical multi-headed creature that can easily regenerate when a head is chopped off. In this case, shutting down one bot would lead to many new ones. <\/p>\nThe resilience of this bot is yet to be tested but rightsholders are already paying close attention. They will do everything in their power to find a weak spot and will likely find law enforcement on their side. <\/p>\nThat said, the opposition against the Z-Library takedown is real, and making the problem go away isn\u2019t as straightforward as some might have believed.<\/p>\nFrom: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\nPowered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With nearly 12 million books, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet. The site had millions of regular readers who found a wealth of free knowledge and entertainment at their fingertips. This success was vigorously interrupted last month when the U.S. Government seized the site\u2019s main domain names. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/pirate-tele1.jpg\"){kind=link}