<story><title>U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-hits-z-library-with-new-domain-name-seizures-230505/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>internetter</author><text>I also pirate things. Often. I don&amp;#x27;t want to, but I&amp;#x27;m always forced to by shitty policy.&lt;p&gt;Apple TV requires credit card verification to stream in certain circumstances. That verification is broken for me... So despite the fact I pay for Apple TV, I pirate when I&amp;#x27;m away from home.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not entitled to the rights of the Ebooks I bought. I guess publishers can just change them[0], and god forbid I put my book on my own EReader. What I tend to do is buy the book and strip DRM. I&amp;#x27;m privileged to even have the ability to buy the book, I guess.&lt;p&gt;And buying ebooks? Terrible experience as well. At the book store, you can just page through the book to see if it&amp;#x27;s what you actually want. I wanted to buy a book on a development topic I&amp;#x27;m interested, and the ebook costs 70$. No problem &lt;i&gt;if&lt;/i&gt; it&amp;#x27;s the book I want, but the preview is just not enough, so I pirated it, then decided to buy it.&lt;p&gt;It really bothers me how consistently the best option is just not to pay.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goodereader.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kindle&amp;#x2F;ronald-dahl-ebooks-being-updated-automatically-with-censored-versions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goodereader.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kindle&amp;#x2F;ronald-dahl-ebooks-being...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sidenote: I think there&amp;#x27;s a potential market for a service that allows local bookstores to sell ebooks. It sounds stupid, but I absolutely love browsing the book store... Just when it comes down to it I buy the ebook because it&amp;#x27;s a much nicer reading experience. I&amp;#x27;d love if I could go to a bookstore, take the book to the counter, &amp;quot;buy it&amp;quot;, and then the clerk takes the book and credits the ebook my account.&lt;p&gt;Lately I&amp;#x27;ve been playing around with connecting the digital and physical worlds. I&amp;#x27;ve been toying with smart windchimes for notifications, christmas lights that tell me the weather, and all sorts of little connections. It&amp;#x27;s beautiful.</text></item><item><author>cik</author><text>What bothers me, is the degree to which Z-library becomes the only feasible way I can read books now. As I now live in Israel I run into several headaches, and it&amp;#x27;s no longer feasible to buy books.&lt;p&gt;* Amazon shut off bookdepository.com&lt;p&gt;* Amazon.com just won&amp;#x27;t ship many books here.&lt;p&gt;* Amazon and Kobo have both clawed back ebook purchases because I don&amp;#x27;t have a US credit card. This is a frequent conversation point amongst English and French speakers living here.&lt;p&gt;* Amazon shut down Kindle Unlimited accounts for those of us living here.&lt;p&gt;* Libby (overdrive) shut off my grandma&amp;#x27;s Overdrive account (Canada) and sister-in-law&amp;#x27;s Overdrive account (US) because we had the nerve, to try and use the library.&lt;p&gt;Frankly I&amp;#x27;m frustrated by this cat and mouse game. I keep trying to purchase, eventually somehow do, and then have obstacles thrown on my way. All this as a massive consumer of books.&lt;p&gt;The behaviour of the industry has literally driven my family, a book buying family to embrace piracy. I would conservatively say we easily spent 2-3K USD on books and ebooks annually. This behaviour has reduced it to nearly zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nunuvit</author><text>I have legal, instant access to nearly every technical publication I need in digital form, but I still illegally download almost everything. It&amp;#x27;s much faster to get the docs, I don&amp;#x27;t have to slog through crippled page navigation or search, and they don&amp;#x27;t cut me off because I&amp;#x27;ve opened too many research papers in one day to see if any of them actually answer my question.&lt;p&gt;The music and TV&amp;#x2F;film industries figured out how to get people to pay. The print industry can figure it out too.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-hits-z-library-with-new-domain-name-seizures-230505/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>internetter</author><text>I also pirate things. Often. I don&amp;#x27;t want to, but I&amp;#x27;m always forced to by shitty policy.&lt;p&gt;Apple TV requires credit card verification to stream in certain circumstances. That verification is broken for me... So despite the fact I pay for Apple TV, I pirate when I&amp;#x27;m away from home.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not entitled to the rights of the Ebooks I bought. I guess publishers can just change them[0], and god forbid I put my book on my own EReader. What I tend to do is buy the book and strip DRM. I&amp;#x27;m privileged to even have the ability to buy the book, I guess.&lt;p&gt;And buying ebooks? Terrible experience as well. At the book store, you can just page through the book to see if it&amp;#x27;s what you actually want. I wanted to buy a book on a development topic I&amp;#x27;m interested, and the ebook costs 70$. No problem &lt;i&gt;if&lt;/i&gt; it&amp;#x27;s the book I want, but the preview is just not enough, so I pirated it, then decided to buy it.&lt;p&gt;It really bothers me how consistently the best option is just not to pay.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goodereader.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kindle&amp;#x2F;ronald-dahl-ebooks-being-updated-automatically-with-censored-versions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;goodereader.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kindle&amp;#x2F;ronald-dahl-ebooks-being...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sidenote: I think there&amp;#x27;s a potential market for a service that allows local bookstores to sell ebooks. It sounds stupid, but I absolutely love browsing the book store... Just when it comes down to it I buy the ebook because it&amp;#x27;s a much nicer reading experience. I&amp;#x27;d love if I could go to a bookstore, take the book to the counter, &amp;quot;buy it&amp;quot;, and then the clerk takes the book and credits the ebook my account.&lt;p&gt;Lately I&amp;#x27;ve been playing around with connecting the digital and physical worlds. I&amp;#x27;ve been toying with smart windchimes for notifications, christmas lights that tell me the weather, and all sorts of little connections. It&amp;#x27;s beautiful.</text></item><item><author>cik</author><text>What bothers me, is the degree to which Z-library becomes the only feasible way I can read books now. As I now live in Israel I run into several headaches, and it&amp;#x27;s no longer feasible to buy books.&lt;p&gt;* Amazon shut off bookdepository.com&lt;p&gt;* Amazon.com just won&amp;#x27;t ship many books here.&lt;p&gt;* Amazon and Kobo have both clawed back ebook purchases because I don&amp;#x27;t have a US credit card. This is a frequent conversation point amongst English and French speakers living here.&lt;p&gt;* Amazon shut down Kindle Unlimited accounts for those of us living here.&lt;p&gt;* Libby (overdrive) shut off my grandma&amp;#x27;s Overdrive account (Canada) and sister-in-law&amp;#x27;s Overdrive account (US) because we had the nerve, to try and use the library.&lt;p&gt;Frankly I&amp;#x27;m frustrated by this cat and mouse game. I keep trying to purchase, eventually somehow do, and then have obstacles thrown on my way. All this as a massive consumer of books.&lt;p&gt;The behaviour of the industry has literally driven my family, a book buying family to embrace piracy. I would conservatively say we easily spent 2-3K USD on books and ebooks annually. This behaviour has reduced it to nearly zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pierat</author><text>Indeed!&lt;p&gt;I have 4 library bookshelves (7 foot tall ones). And they&amp;#x27;re packed with books. *Bought* books.&lt;p&gt;But dealing with more current &amp;quot;online books&amp;quot; are a fraud. They &amp;#x27;sell&amp;#x27; these books, but in actuality they&amp;#x27;re rentals due to DRM. I cant read them on Linux; I cant sell them; I cant read them on my phone; I can&amp;#x27;t print past their arbitrary print limits.&lt;p&gt;I have none of the same rights of these physical books.&lt;p&gt;So, yeah, I&amp;#x27;ll pirate.</text></comment>