Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.

On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions" ever issued by a US court.

As the time this was posted, this page loads. https://libgen.is/
So does http://libgen.st/
http://libgen.rs/ no longer resolves to an IP address.
https://singlelogin.re/ also still loads. This is Z Library.

#academic-papers #academic-publishing #libgen #library-genesis #piracy #library #shadow-library #free-access #open-access #elsevier #research #academic-research #zlib #z-library #sci-hub #scholarly-journals

also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICanHazPDF

Z-Library: New Problems

My private URL for Z-Library no longer works. These were an innovation Z-Library started a year or two ago. You sent an email message to them, and they sent you back custom URLs just for you.

However, I found http://zlib24th6ptyb4ibzn3tj2cndqafs6rhm4ed4gruxztaaco35lka.b32.i2p/ This works just fine, and will be harder to block, but I2P doesn't make connections as easily as the Clearnet, and not even as easily as Onionland. Also, a lot of you don't run I2P.

For now, https://singlelogin.re/ is also working.

#zlibrary #z-library #books #copyright #site-blocking #open-culture #library #libraries #free-access #ebooks #downloads #ebook-downloads #book-downloads