Popular shadow library LibGen appears to be struggling with technical problems. Regular book downloads stopped working last weekend and remain unavailable. The reason for the issues are unknown but, for now, internal troubles at the site seem more likely than a copyright-related enforcement action.

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Starting last weekend, regular LibGen downloads suddenly stopped working. The outage suggests that there’s a problem with the storage servers, but there’s no official explanation.

The lack of communication doesn’t come as a complete surprise. A few months ago, the site already appeared to have some internal struggles. The person in charge of the site’s coding has reportedly been ‘inactive’ for a while.

This personnel issue may explain the database errors and technical trouble that resulted in broken functionality a few months back. It may also explain why new torrents are not being added on a weekly or daily basis. Presently, the latest torrent archive on the site dates back to April.

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[–] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Piracy is the sort of thing that never dies. Someone will find a way to host books for the world if libgen dies

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

inshallah-script

[–] Blep@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Id actually have to start using z library if they kill libgen

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Brother I hate to break it to you but this is what comes up when you enter its url:

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

Why are these piracy websites not hosting inside Russia? I don't think I've ever heard of Cs.rin.ru going down. Russia is legitimately the best country for piracy rn.

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

https://z-library.rs/

you have to make an acct now. they will send you a custom url to access it

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

That's not what I see when I visit the onion site.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Libgen and scihub are great barometers for vibes in academia

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

sure hope not, i'll be pissed if i have to figure out alternative ways to "borrow" books

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i freaked out at first, but then remembered this shit is impossible to kill. except for sci-hub rip :( anyone lmk if there’s an alternative to sci-hub that has articles newer than 2021

[–] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Annas-archive.org

Mirrors a libgen, sci-hub, z-library, etc. In addition to uploading its own stuff.

It also has an explicit continuation of sci-hub's mission called SciDB

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 10 months ago

I really hope they'll last

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

God damn rip scihub

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’ve been struggling recently, can’t get me damn books

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

Libgen is such an invaluable resource, I dearly hope we don't lose it

[–] roux@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

I guess I switched from libgen.rs to libgen.pm at some point and never realized it but .pm seems to be working for me for the moment.

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are there ways to support these book repos using something like torrent seeding or some other p2p system? I have a lot of storage and good proxy setups.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can download all of Anna's Archive via torrent afaik

edit: here

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nice! I'll start seeding then!

Thanks!

[–] Brickardo 3 points 10 months ago

Anna's archive has been acting funky as of lately too with the waitlist shenanigans.