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[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 127 points 1 month ago

Don’t give your money to the Russian cybercriminals

they’re not selling ebooks, they’re giving them away, that’s the whole point

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 94 points 1 month ago

yOu WoUlDn’T StEaL A mOdEsT MiDdLe cLaSs VaCaTiOn

[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 112 points 1 month ago

fbi acting like z library promised to take them on vacation but took their new girlfriend and stepson instead

[-] foxontherocks@hexbear.net 103 points 1 month ago

I think the folks who gave me some books can have a camping trip in a marsh.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 103 points 1 month ago

Am i supposed to be angered at these pics of z's "luxurious" lifestyle?

These are middle class aspirations at best. show me just one of the houses of these copyright holders.

Hate! Haaaaaate! peppino-angry

[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago

are you joking? look at that late 1990s camper. that thing must’ve costed literally dozens upon dozens of dollars to rent. yet they wanna act like they aren’t making money. im not buying that bs

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 98 points 1 month ago

Wow, I'm so upset that these people providing an invaluable service to the world have a modicum of comfort in their lives!

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 84 points 1 month ago

Berries in their gruel? The underclass is too comfortable porky-point

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 85 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are like two MEGACORPS that run educational textbook industry. I know many students who used Z-Library to get their textbooks. It's crazy that IP law is ALWAYS about money, nothing else. IP law does nothing but get in the way of education and knowledge creation. Z-Lib was the plug.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 82 points 1 month ago

The dude went on a camping trip with a range rover and caravan, along with a rented boat, and that's somehow worth making a fuss according to the FBI?

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 77 points 1 month ago

You say that capitalism is bad, and yet you enjoy things. Curious.

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 78 points 1 month ago

Now show us what a vacation of an average US millionaire looks like and why we should give a fuck that they're getting paid a few books less, money which the writer themselves will probably get a sad percentage of anyway

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Fuck the vacation, just show a picture of the average day to day living of the billionaires who own publishing companies and it's already far beyond the conception of the average person

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 69 points 1 month ago

I'll pay them so they can afford something better than a caravan holiday, nobody deserves that.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Pretty much every second Afrikaans family goes on a caravan or camping holiday during the school holidays here in South Africa lol. It's basically a tradition at this point.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 66 points 1 month ago
[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 73 points 1 month ago

They actually have a pot of STOLEN gold at the end of that rainbow.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago

Would you download a pot of gold???

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 64 points 1 month ago

This is actually pathetic. Is this real? Is this supposed to look like opulence? Show us some "copyright holder" camping trips please

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[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago

Fuck I never thought i'd experience second hand embarrassment from the FBI, this reeks of desperation, cringe

[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago

Russian admins: feds want me, fish fear me grillman

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Z-library living it up like they're 1950s auto workers taking a week off to go fishing around Baldwin, MI.

Edit: It reminds of the handwringing about Bernie Sanders having a vacation cabin. Having a cabin used to be extremely common in the unionized Midwest, and in the USSR having a dacha to hang out at was also very normal. It's something a society with advanced industry can easily achieve. Capitalists are trying to erase the living memory of countless 100s of millions of people and act like having access to a cabin is an unprecedented luxury.

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago

That's nice they do a lot of good work I hope they enjoy their vacation blob-no-thoughts

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago

That picture on the bottom left looks quite nice. I hope they enjoyed the trip to the lake

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

Hope there weren't any mosquitos.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Spoiler: there were. Though in Russia and generally northern Eurasia mosquitos aren't that much of a problem. Ticks are worse.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

I hate mosquitos with a passion but ticks are worse imo.

Alaska stay winning

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[-] frauddogg@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago

As long as original content is held part and parcel by vile capitalist entities intent on wringing every possible dime out of the underclass, then no. Piracy is a service problem; Z-Library hosts a better service than anyone whose content ended up there.

All swine is good for is pit roasting in this house; and all their words are fuckin wind.

[-] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

Imagine them seizing the RNC website and posting pictures of maralago with the same caption.

[-] 666@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 month ago
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[-] REgon@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago

So they've spent the vast hordes of money on... what looks like a cheap, semi-decrepit bungalow in a flooded area and a relatively new car, a camper, a small boat and what looks like the kinda view you'd get on most vacations to the mediterranean so I'm gonna assume they're on vacation? Wow they're really living high on the hog

Don't get me wrong, it looks nice, but for the vibe the FBI is throwing out you'd think they were living like Epstein.

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[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

less opulent than the average american car dealership owner, and z-library actually provides a useful service

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

Russian cybercriminals

Them being Russian makes it extra bad!

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah. Someone saving me hundreds of dollars better get a vacation or two at least

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

So continues the trend of the American alphabet agencies continuing to become more and more pathetic

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they can only seize domains? L

[-] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago

deeply unserious agency

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

fedposting AND THEY WENT CAMPING! AND THEY HAD A SMALL FISHING BOAT! THE BOSS DOESN'T EVEN GIVE ME TIME OFF - THE NERVE! IF I CAN'T HAVE TIME OFF WORK THEN NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ENJOY A DAY IN THE SUN!

Hey fed-minders you doing ok buds? I know I've been slacking off in my p0rn binge nights and I appologize for that. Maybe later tonight you can follow my browisng history for some "research" you know "for work" janet-wink get some of that stress off instead of being forced to play McCarthy red scare yadda.

[-] princeofsin@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago
[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Anna's Archive lists z-lib.gs as a mirror and it's working too, and the mobile app never stopped working. Looks like they couldn't take it down at all lol.

Hope Internet Archive also starts hosting in Russia if the whole fiasco they're going through right now makes them have to shut it down.

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