End of an era. Goodbye libgen, you single-handedly provided me my course textbooks for free, saving me over $10k CAD in textbook costs over two degrees.

Without libgen I would not have afforded my education.

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

I wish I'd thought to do this.

[–] Junkhead@slrpnk.net 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

can we just destroy major corporations this is like the destruction of the library of Alexandria.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I wish I could like a comment twice on Lemmy.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Academia's 9/11

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently the issues are mostly with the outgoing download links from libgen.rs and .st (passing through libgen.lol), including the IPFS links which were being problematic in the past few months already.

Instead I just tried something from libgen.gs which is the one for comicbooks, and it's downloading fine from the direct link.

Thankfully most if not all content should be backed up on Annas-archive!

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It has free comics?!

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Yep. Loads of unorganized (and some organized) files uploaded over decades via FTP 😅 a mess full of gems

[–] halm@leminal.space 5 points 2 years ago

Heck yeah. Loads of pirated CBZs and CBRs.

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 29 points 2 years ago

We really need to push IPFS and TOR/I2P to keep these websites alive. Fuck the low barrier to entry if it means the website can just be subpoenaed

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 years ago

A fucking tragedy if it goes down.

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn't Anna's Archive mirror libgen amongst other things?

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 years ago

Yes.

Seed the fucking torrents. https://annas-archive.se/torrents Enter how many TBs you have spare, and it will tell you which torrents to download. This way, we can all back up Anna's Archive together so the data won't disappear.

[–] xiao@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Modern heroes.

Their contributions will be celebrated in the coming centuries.

[–] Sho@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Out of curiousity, I visited one of the sites just now and was able to download a random book from one of the links provided. That said, the first set of links for the book didn't work.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You downloaded the least seeded torrent and you're seeding it now, right?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Every month or so i grab another TB of seed data. Been doing it for about a year. I got you.