Introducing a new open-source shadow library! : piracy


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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago (6 children)

putting aside the obvious glowie talk someone else raised, you should really, really reconsider your opsec. And I mean, really. Using discord to communicate? And spamming Reddit, from a non-dedicated account, no less? Posting PII to justify downtimes? If this gets any traction at all, you're in deep shit. There's a good reason Anna is as anonymous as she is. Cat is out of the bag at this point, I'd recommend shutting it down. You could always continue developing the code for it, the frontend looks pretty good. But please, reconsider if you have the dedication and knowledge it takes to run a shadow library and not be caught.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

our model is just like the old movie-web, we are open source and if we are DMCA'd then we will take it down but our mirrors will still be up but i understand the opsec point and may move from discord to signal

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

that's good and all, but as it stands now, it seems almost guaranteed your PII will leak. Are you okay to never set foot into a country that extradites to the US again?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My opsec doesn't allow for any Russian projects at all

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

having a .ru domain is just precaution against takedowns - none of the devs are russian its just the west and russia dont get along so takedown requests for a .ru domain would be ignored by russia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Fair, at least as long as they're not open-source

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tried downloading a book and it's just giving an error saying it failed to download. Book name

God i norsk 1 - Tekstbok A1/A2 : norsk for voksne innvandrere

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 day ago (7 children)

No thanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They can ignore US copyright laws there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And why a Twitter account?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All states are the enemy, borders are spooks, seek allies worldwide. Borders are not real, the imaginary scars of the owner class, erase them all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Talk to Ukraine about borders

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

What's happening in Ukraine sucks

That doesn't contradict the sentiment that borders are generally arbitrary lines designed to divide us.

Using a Russian sure to get free books doesn't hurt Ukraine unless these are all like infected with Russian turbo malware or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not familiar with this. Does it mean that it’s Russian operated?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Russia is one of the key destinations for piracy because of lenient laws and even more lenient police practice regarding it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

If you’re afraid of websites hosted in Russia, I have bad news for you regarding piracy.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is giving me Fed vibes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

i can assure you this isnt a fed op lmao. idk how i can convince you maybe check out the github and check out the devs? some devs are from other big projects like movie-web ect that got taken down.

plus downloads arent hidden behind registration, and we are addnig accounts in the future but its going to be mullvad style - a 12 digit unique identifier so privacy wise theres nothing tying you to the downloads except your ip, which we also dont save so you are fine

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fed as in?

I'm new to Lenny and wouldn't mind learning the lingo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

In the piracy world, “fed” is short for Federal Bureau of Investigation police officer.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

I think they means it's a federal operation, a honey pot for a government to crack down on piracy.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thanks, this sounds like a great project! Also, glad dbzer0 was your choice of a community :)

Is there an rogue date where you'll release it to be open source?

Also, seeing you mentioned ad-free, i'm curious about this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i meant annoying ad free as in no redirect or popup ads - we still need a way to fund the project since donations are scarce

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

btw you say “ad free” but I can see an ad in the home

Regarding the download speeds etc, also Anna’s archive was faster time ago but then the more you grow the more you have to take care

So my question is, are there any plans for scaling?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i said annoying ad-free i should have clarified i meant no popup or redirect ads - and yes there are plans for scaling and we have a few different services like you saw sponsoring the project aswell

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For your sake, I'd strongly recommend not monetizing the site at all. Publishers will come after you if you make any sort of profit from the site especially if you're located in a western country.

That's one of the main reasons Nintendo took action against Yuzu - they were making a lot of money from Patreon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

we arent monetizing the site - we still need a way to fund the project and snowcore have kindly agreed to give use a bulletproof server that we use for caching and proxying between our storage server

all money ever donated or gained is invested back into the project - we arent making anything

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being “private” and having a discord is like an oxymoron.

I only see a front end on GitHub. Is this just a libgen mirror?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No its not a libgen mirror - we have our own collections and are torrenting from libgen + zlib aswell - and backend is going to be open sourced in the future once its finished and ready - right now the code is very janky and im too embarassed to release it lol. Theres still alot of additions to do to the backend and once that is done I will release.

We also have a telegram and signal group - the discord was just for my existing community who are primarily discord users aswell

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Revolt.chat is a really solid alternative to Discord

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there any Upside over NexusSTC?
Is it decentralised?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there any Upside over NexusSTC? Is it decentralised? bookracy has faster and unlimited downloads, lack of popup/redirect ads, and a more active community. also from my knowledge NexusSTC is more academic content whereas bookracy has more of a range of content

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

also no Bookracy is not decentralised - it operates on centralized servers much like LibGen ect. This means that while it’s open-source and community-driven, our infrastructure still relies on traditional hosting, which can be vulnerable to takedowns or disruptions. However we've taken precautions for this and have a bulletproof proxy server which also caches inbetween the storage server and client

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it's not decentralized then it's vulnerable to takedowns. Why not decentralize it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Will you also share your collections via Torrents like LibGen and ZLib or contribute back to them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yep im planning on setting up an ipfs node and torrents for our own collections are planned for the future

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Awesome!

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