Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked
Submitted 4 months ago by cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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zcd@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Their detention occurred without compliance with legal norms and with numerous procedural violations, and the FBI request contained knowingly false data on the existence of a court sanction for arrest
Still the same old tactic
Don_Dickle@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
What in the hell is a Z-library can someone ELI5 it for me.?
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
It’s a hosting site for free ebooks.
The site admins don’t provide any of the ebooks themselves - they just host files that are uploaded by whoever wishes, and provide for downloads for whoever wishes. (Not that that alters its legal status - just by way of explanation).
It’s notably popular among college students, as a source to download free versions of obscenely overpriced textbooks.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Z library is dead ass the only way I made it through college with a cent to my name.
Don_Dickle@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Thank you. I swear you learn something new every day…no sarcasm.
daddybutter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Z-library was a massive pirate repository for ebooks.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Z-library was a massive pirate repository for ebooks.
Is still is. The site is still up and running, they even upgraded their system to have Telegram Bots for its users.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Online digital library.
jadedwench@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We had a student run server for piracy at my University to get copied textbooks from, but even then we had to sometimes look elsewhere. I often couldn’t afford books and not all professors allowed the cheaper used previous editions.
Science textbooks were the worst with their stupid fucking online code bullshit so we could do homework. They even made it where you could buy just the code, which was something like $70. Still better than 300+, but JFC. Having to spend over $1000 for books that you are only going to use for 10 weeks was nuts.
The last saving grace we had is all textbooks were required to have at least one copy in the library that could not be checked out/removed. You could photocopy the homework pages that way. If your classmates were nice, they would let you borrow theirs to copy any pages too. You could also buy your textbook, copy what you needed, and return it within the return window.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And usually, there was an awesome professor that would “accidentally” make a free e-version of the textbook available to the class. God I appreciated the hell outta them.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I had professors that just had you buy a “reader” which just a big binder of photocopied pages from text books, academic journals and various published papers.
The local copy shops were bigger centers of piracy than Napster at the time.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 4 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But according to a translated article from a local publication called La Voz, the pair suddenly disappeared after submitting a request “to be considered political refugees” in order to “avoid being sent to the US.”
Ars was not immediately able to reach the DOJ or the Patronato del Liberado—the agency in Argentina that confirmed to La Voz that the couple had escaped—to verify the report.
Officials told La Voz that the Patronato del Liberado was charged with monitoring the Z-Library admins’ house arrest and “were surprised to find that there was no trace of them” during a routine check-in last May.
In a Change.org petition, the Z-Library team wrote that both were “project participants who ensure the operation of the platform” and were “not involved in uploading files” the US considered copyright-infringing, calling their detention “unfair and unacceptable.”
It currently has 146,000 out of 150,000 signatures sought, with Z-Library fans defending the platform as providing critical access for people without financial means to knowledge and diverse educational resources.
“We call for the restoration of Z-Library and for a fair solution that takes into account both the rights of authors and the need for people to have free access to educational resources,” the petition said.
The original article contains 663 words, the summary contains 204 words. Saved 69%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
They will be extradited to face financial capital face-to-face, in the “Land ofthe free”
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 months ago
For a second I thought this was about zlib.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 months ago
Don’t be glib.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 months ago
What did you just call me?!
jadedwench@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Me too!
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Knowledge wants to be free. One day our institutions will stop fighting it.
viking@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Random novels =/= knowledge.
I’m totally supporting sci-hub and it’s quest for free access to academia, but contemporary books aren’t on the same level. Writers deserve to be paid.
Classics are all in the public domain anyway.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 months ago
Writers deserve to be paid but not academic writers?
Or is it that science should be free but culture should be gate locked?
jorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
we sure do twist and cram so many things into a capitalist framework, if only there were another way