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Popular eBook Site Z-Library Is Dead Now

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Popular eBook Site Z-Library Is Dead Now

The U.S. Department of Justice seized internet domains for the most popular ebook downloading site Z-Library. This prevented easy access to the service. Z-Library ranks among the top 10k most popular websites on the Internet. It offers over 11 million books and more than 84 million articles free of charge via its website.

Yesterday, websites hosted at zlib.org and b-ok.org began to display a message stating that the US DOJ and the Postal Inspection Service had seized the service.

Friday afternoon’s seizure notice for 3lib.net was updated with information that indicated the domains had been seized by the FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York.

Z-Library eBook site domains seized by U.S. Dept of Justice

WHOIS information initially showed that the U.S. government seized the domains and switched their DNS servers to NS1.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM and NS2.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM, two shared DNS servers by the U.S and law enforcement in domain seizures.

Since then, however, these DNS servers have been moved to Njalla (an anonymizing hosting provider). Therefore, it needs to be clarified how Z-Library could transfer these domains to the new host.

Name Server: 1-YOU.NJALLA.NO
Name Server: 2-CAN.NJALLA.IN
Name Server: 3-GET.NJALLA.FO

Although Clearnet sites may not be accessible, they can still be accessed via Tor Onion. However, visitors are now informed of possible server issues that could make the service temporarily unavailable.

Z-Library eBook Site Domains Seized By U.S. Dept Of Justice

Although the court order is unavailable now, the site’s domains were likely seized as many files were uploaded without the license. In the past, complaints to copyright protection offices have led to legal actions against the platform’s registrar in seizing the Z-Library domains. Further domain blockages and DMCA notifications in the U.S.A and France were also issued.

The USTR (United States Trade Representative) recently launched an investigation into the platform. This has caused social media platforms that promoted Z-Library to be more cautious about what is allowed.

According to TorrentFreak, TikTok has decided to block hashtags that are related to Z-Library. This was apparently in response to complaints from the copyright holder.

Z-Library eBook Site Domains Seized By U.S. Dept Of Justice

TikTok stated, “Reducing the user discoverability for content that violates our Community Guidelines” is paramount.

TikTok blocks search results for terms violating our Community Guidelines. This includes terms that refer to counterfeit goods. Our team also evaluates the content associated with #zlibrary, and we have recently blocked search results for #zlibrary.

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