Pirate e-book site goes dark, boarded by the feds

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Pirate e-book site goes dark, boarded by the feds | Boing Boing

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[ChuckV]

@boingboing

The hashtag #zlibrary on popular social media platform TikTok has 4 million views, in reference to the countless videos posted by college and high school students and others across the world promoting it as the go-to place for free ebooks

I wonder how many of these were textbooks.

[FloridaManJefe]

@boingboing

For a brilliant book about motley crews, radical democracy, and anti-capitalism, check out Villians of all Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age by Marcus Rediker.

oh, yes! and thank you for the link to this. it is on my reading list now!
loves me a Pyratin’ tale, i does.

[GilbertWham]

Its TOR instance is still up

[MerelyGifted]

Most of the complaints I’ve seen and heard about are from students, who can no longer get $200+ textbooks for free.

[Sparg_Otyebat]

I guess the kids don’t know about IRC or Usenet.