Popular Shadow Library 'LibGen' Breaks Down Amidst Legal Troubles.
Popular Shadow Library 'LibGen' Breaks Down Amidst Legal Troubles.
Popular shadow library LibGen appears to be struggling with technical problems. Regular book downloads stopped working last weekend.
End of an era. Goodbye libgen, you single-handedly provided me my course textbooks for free, saving me over $10k CAD in textbook costs over two degrees.
Without libgen I would not have afforded my education.
I wish I'd thought to do this.
can we just destroy major corporations this is like the destruction of the library of Alexandria.
I wish I could like a comment twice on Lemmy.
Academia's 9/11
Apparently the issues are mostly with the outgoing download links from libgen.rs and .st (passing through libgen.lol), including the IPFS links which were being problematic in the past few months already.
Instead I just tried something from libgen.gs which is the one for comicbooks, and it's downloading fine from the direct link.
Thankfully most if not all content should be backed up on Annas-archive!
It has free comics?!
Yep. Loads of unorganized (and some organized) files uploaded over decades via FTP 😅 a mess full of gems
Heck yeah. Loads of pirated CBZs and CBRs.
We really need to push IPFS and TOR/I2P to keep these websites alive. Fuck the low barrier to entry if it means the website can just be subpoenaed
A fucking tragedy if it goes down.
Doesn't Anna's Archive mirror libgen amongst other things?
Yes.
Seed the fucking torrents. https://annas-archive.se/torrents Enter how many TBs you have spare, and it will tell you which torrents to download. This way, we can all back up Anna's Archive together so the data won't disappear.
Modern heroes.
Their contributions will be celebrated in the coming centuries.
Out of curiousity, I visited one of the sites just now and was able to download a random book from one of the links provided. That said, the first set of links for the book didn't work.
You downloaded the least seeded torrent and you're seeding it now, right?
Every month or so i grab another TB of seed data. Been doing it for about a year. I got you.