Another one is close to biting the dust. Sci-Hub is out, Z-Lib got ran off like a dog and now IA is going to remove a host of books because these publishers just can’t stop being money-hungry bastards.
This is why I support piracy. Knowledge should be free. To go after a nonprofit organization that just wants to make digital books and other formats accessible to everyone when majority of uploads can’t be downloaded only borrowed, is just so devious and greedy.
I’m so tired of it. Laws around copyright and intellectual property need to be reformed. I feel so helpless :c
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I can’t believe these are the times we live in. The services of the Internet Archive are invaluable for scholars and students alike. No library can afford all the printed books/journals or licenses needed for an adequate approach to most topics. And to be honest, shadow libraries are also much needed when publishers lock away vital knowledge (which was often gained through support from public grants).
This seems just another example of how capitalism will bring about the downfall of our civilization as it hinders the progress of science.
This is depressing as hell.
Most people have no idea how much sci-hub has advanced medical and basic scientific discovery.
We need things like the archive more than ever now too as the the disease of thinking truth is a maleable substrate continues to spread.
Uh zlib and sci hub are both still alive.
Sci-Hub stopped adding new articles since its court case and Z-Lib had most of its domains seized by the US. I didn’t say they were dead, but tried to convey that they were attacked and forced to either cease their operations or shrink significantly.
Right but zlib is full strength at this point, and libgen remained unaffected. Annas archive gives an extensive coverage of it all.
Sci Hub is not down or did I miss something?
No longer taking new papers for a couple of years? now. Crying shame and a pox on scientific advancement.
Anna’s archive acts as a drop in replacement for libgen and z-library, also doesn’t cost anything
doesn’t it rely on them ? more of an indexer…
No, more like a mirror in that it hosts all of zlib and libgen’s content as well as providing torrent and ipfs links for the files (which they seed)
And yet when libgen was broken a couple of days ago it sent me to the broken libgen for the (admittedly obscure) thing I was after. Perhaps caching I dunno. Still, glad it’s there…
From what I see, there are
45 options on annas-archive.org-
Use fast(but fee charging) direct download
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Use ipfs
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use torrents
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Go to source pages (libgen and/or zlibrary)
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Slow direct download [Edited]
It sounds like you clicked the link to the source as opposed to the mirrors
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Internet Archiv will go .onion
That only helps for shadow libraries whose operators are unknown. The Internet Archive, on the other hand, is a registered non-profit organisation, so how would they be able to hide themselves?
I still can access zlib what are you talking about??
It seems like this order is rather limited and the IA can continue almost all of their work.
