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.

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months 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

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months 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.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

A fucking tragedy if it goes down.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Academia's 9/11

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months 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 1 points 3 months ago

It has free comics?!

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

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