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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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[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am sorry. But who is doing this and why?

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 31 points 1 year ago

.org/.net/.com domains are American so my guess is the same as the post author's – USA and the FBI. But they don't have a clue either why these specific domains were targeted. On the other hand, with the mess that is the DMCA and with copyright interests in the US being controlled by corporations it's not hard to imagine .org domains being blocked on a whim.

[–] mayoi@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Copyright trolls, because they can. Maybe Z-library should do better so this cannot happen in the first place.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ikr? What are we paying Z library so mu--

Hold on a second..