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Today we are forced to share some sad news - yesterday many of our domains were seized again. We should highlight that the majority of the seized domains were not mirrors of the Z-Library website. Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world, and their blocking is perplexing. For instance, these domains included books in Tamil, Mongolian, Catalan, Urdu, Pashto, and other languages:

afrikaans-books.org

bengali-books.org

urdu-books.org

marathi-books.org

chamorro-books.org

Over the 15 years of the project's existence, we've managed to collect an impressive collection of rare texts in many uncommon languages. These domains featured many unique texts that can't be found anywhere else, including rare books, documents, and manuscripts. All of this is a priceless heritage, contributing to the preservation and study of world cultures, and serving as important material for researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and history.

Z-Library also states in the blog post that they did not lose the files, just the domains.

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[–] stifle867@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I get it, just pointing out that you should be following your own advice on this as there is no point in feeding the trolls. Just block and move on bro. No point following them around lemmy engaging with them at every opportunity. People are smart enough to work it out for themselves.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'll take your advice into consideration. I probably will when I get bored of it. I'm actually quite amused just wasting this guy's time at the moment

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well the rest of us just see two trolls instead of one so don't expect anyone to treat you favourably when you're acting just as bad as the original troll.

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