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A comment on Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution.

Re:Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’... by dontupvoteme on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:17PM (#37093487)
The whole thing is a paywall-to-really-use it operation?

That's what always confused me about z-lib, whereas its scientific version has all its TBs of data available via torrent (albeit very slowly), this one seemed like a shady operation based on the fact that i cannot simply start downloading everything.

Will it only be google that has books as a data source?

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Re:Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’... by FireInsight on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:56AM (#37099283)
I had no idea z-lib moved to a freemium model, last time I looked it was free. Did the US legal actions put them in a dire need for money?

Anyway, I've found https://annas-archive.org/ (which, btw, charges for links to faster downloads) now so there's no reason for me to be browsing libgen or z-lib anymore.

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