The other domains are still online, though z-library has yet to respond

Post edited, thank you @mbt2402 for correcting me

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[–] 123 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Damn can't believe the guy saving me so much money is able to have some fun with their family. How dare they

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago

    Images of a modest middle class vacation

    FBI: this should make you feel bad, that modest middle class vacation is at the cost of the publishing company CEO's second yacht being smaller than he promised his children. It doesn't even have a helipad!

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  • [–] 115 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    FBI should care more about Epstein's friends instead of having fun with digital books

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    I mean, what would be the point at this point? Majority of the country is apparently okay with Epstein style activities given his best friend who has bragged about having the same tastes got elected

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It seems weird FBI would post misinformation regarding how "they" are spending the money

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I like how one of their points of evidence is a only kinda sort of expensive camper trailer. Yeah, I'm perfectly fine with the people maintaining a public resource like that being able to go on camping trips lmao.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I swear this is an old photo from at least a few months ago. I remember people joking about the caravan and boat being so extravagant

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In my experience it's very common for Z-Library's domains to get seized. My password manager has like 10 different domains connected to the same zlibrary account; 9 of which doesnt work anymore.

    Best place you can see the currently working domain is wikipedia.

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    This makes so little sense to me. One would think that an app would have a wider user base as well as being easier to take down. All they would need to do is run the app and see where it phones home to, then send a C&D to the distribution platform(s).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    i remember when soap2day was a thing (it was one of the better web ones without downloading that we could easily use on the PS4 without a USB stick etc) they had soapgate.org which would give a list of the current working domains. different domains would go down but until they shut the entire thing down I never saw soapgate change

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    Oh God they're removing faces from people?!? 😭

    WHY?! They have no mouth but they must scream!

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    As a wannabe author, I could only be so lucky to get my work "pirated". Free publicity.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Seriously. I managed a small rock band for a while. We got picked to tour with another band in some clubs in Eastern Europe. This was pre-Spotify, but Facebook strong.

    We had no CD sales pre-tour to these places, just some views on youtube. We were relying a lot on the other band.

    But the people that came to the shows?They knew the words and sang along and we had a great time.

    Someone had our music and shared it before we got there. And we were grateful for those pirates!! And yes, we sold some merch and CDs at the shows.

    If not for the pirates it would have been a much different experience with a lot less people showing up.

    Our band never "made it" but it was still a successful tour and a helluva lot of fun. In large part because our music was pirated and shared ahead of time.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i remember this from earlier in the year, so petty LOL american corporate action agency seething. the seized domain is z-lib.se, and it probably logs your ip if you visit it btw.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Why would you take down a website for a c++ compression library?

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is the post description bugged out? I see a lot of comments mentioning things that are already mentioned in it.

    Here's the post description, in case it is bugging outThe other domains are still online, though z-library has yet to respond

    I've seen this 'z-library seized' image shared around much prior to this, but I couldn't find the source

    It's unlikely that this was actually done by the FBI

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    why do you think it wasn't done by the fbi? fbi is public about their campaign against z-lib devs. and the z-lib devs did acknowledge this siezure in may

    https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-carries-out-fresh-round-of-z-library-domain-name-seizures-240530/

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because even the worst of bureaucracy employees isn't going to put "this is how [russian cybercriminals] are spending [money]" and place some absolutely weird pictures of a small and cheap house next to a pond, a small and cheap trailer being pulled in snow, a relatively nice but middle-class affordable boat in a swamp, and a family of four by a pool.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is none of the domains mentioned in the article, and as far as I know this site was only modified yesterday.

    This image has also been floating around for a while, but I don't know how often the FBI reuses target-specific images.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    you can do a whois, which shows that the redirect is to a domain used for domain seizures. you should edit your post, as it is factually incorrect.

    https://www.whois.com/whois/zlibrary-bl.se https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/z-library-ebook-site-domains-seized-by-us-dept-of-justice/

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    They're destroying whatever credibility they might've had by acting like trolls. Like at this point they might as well be posting racist wojak memes in these cards.

    It really doesn't help their cause or make people want to believe them, and even to normies it comes off as extremely hard grasping. It makes them look weaker. It only helps the cause for people who already onboard, which is useless because those people are already onboard, it's preaching to the choir.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The more they try to stop us, the more we will come back

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    Are there domains that ARE up and running, currently?

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