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I don't understand how zlibrary can still be up though. If the glowies can seize the domains can't they also seize the servers hosting the data?

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They are outside the US jurisdiction.

The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors.

"The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors. "

Like where? Zlibrary wasn't open for 'official' mirrors in the first place, and the 'unofficial mirror' hasn't had any seeders for its torrents since at least the seizure of the domains last week.

There's a person who comments on some of the z-lib posts and they are the ones who archived z-lib (and some other sites). If I can find it, I'll edit this comment.

Here. Her name is Anna.

http://annas-blog.org/blog-introducing.html

http://pilimi.org/

Yah I know, it's the torrents on that site I was talking about.

Zibrary is/was essentially a different frontend for libgen content. If you look for libgen archives, it is indeed mirrored.

No it's not. Well it started out that way, but libgen is 7TB, zlibrary added another 16TB to that, which was not shared in the way libgen is.

The core of Libgen is indeed 33TB. No idea where you get your 7TB from. The content difference between it and zlibrary is marginal from what I understand.

http://pilimi.org/zlib.html

Including fiction (but excluding the scihub mirror, and comics), Libgen is actually about ~60TB. Z-Library mirrors this, and adds about ~24TB exclusive to them.

Maybe 80% of it is. Zlibrary, rather greedily, accepts its own individual uploads and does not mirror them to libgen anymore. Probably due to their monetization policies.

They are located in territories that are not friendly to US "glowies". Also, they tried that with Pirate Bay which was on glowie-friendly territory (Sweden, ever happy to lick US jack-boots) but it just became a game of whack-a-mole they couldn't win.

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