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Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen's Troubles (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Popular shadow library LibGen continues to face trouble. In addition to ongoing technical problems, a U.S. lawsuit resulted in several domain suspensions and seizures in recent weeks. To top it off, the shadow library was just added to Germany's pirate site blocking list, making it harder to access the remaining domains.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Oh dear. Could it perhaps be hosted in a decentralised way? Like ipfs or torrents or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

There should be all of LibGen corpus pinned on IPFS and there used to be a front end hosted on IPFS but I have not looked at it in a while.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

There are already Torrents with the raw data and they've used IPFS in the past, but decided it was not ready https://annas-archive.org/torrents (They pool multiple shadow libraries)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Annas archive is not LibGen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

But they include it, as I've written it 🙄

(They pool multiple shadow libraries)