Imagine working on taking Z library down as your day job and still sleeping at night. Scum of the earth.

This eerily reminds of books burning.

Given that domain seizure is becoming such a common tool for this sort of thing, maybe we need a work around for DNS?

For example, we could distribute z-library name/IP pairs in the form of a hosts file via torrents and then write little wrapper programs for each OS that would just crawl the DHT for the latest version to update your local hosts file.

A more extreme option would be to build a pirate browser that has a bunch of name/IP pairs baked into it. People could just launch the browser and visit websites as usual without DNS being an issue.

I'm aware that using Tor is also an option, but there's a bunch of problems there with usability like installation and setup (for non-technical people). Onion URLs aren't easily discoverable either, and much of what you find in there just kids cosplaying as digital freedom fighters posting links that load really slowly... at least that was my experience the last time I tried out a TOR browser.

I am sorry. But who is doing this and why?

I couldn't find anything, just clicking around. Does z library not have a mechanism for others to make backups of its data? It looks like generally there are lots of limits around downloading, which makes sense. Most people need a handful of books. But without full data backups spread around multiple data hoarding nerds systems globally. When the inevitable day comes that the whole thing gets shut down they'll be nothing to bring back

Wouldn't it be possible to move the entire library into the dark web and leave just a few snorkels behind?

Or move it to a model similar to zeronet?

I didn't know Zlibrary was still up. I got too confused when they went down and was never sure how to get back in. Ended up paying pocket for the remainder of my textbooks.

Did torrents become extinct? Or even something like ipfs?

Is it still possible to get personal domains working? I know they had them before but not sure if they still do