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

Link to blog post:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/

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    Anna’s archive acts as a drop in replacement for libgen and z-library, also doesn’t cost anything

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        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)

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          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…

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            From what I see, there are 4 5 options on annas-archive.org

            1. Use fast(but fee charging) direct download

            2. Use ipfs

            3. use torrents

            4. Go to source pages (libgen and/or zlibrary)

            5. Slow direct download [Edited]

            It sounds like you clicked the link to the source as opposed to the mirrors