Popular Shadow Library 'LibGen' Breaks Down Amidst Legal TroublesErnesto Van der Sar, 14 Aug 11:29 AM Library Genesis (LibGen) is one of the oldest
 | Library Genesis (LibGen) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers people otherwise have to pay for. The site's origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union's underground publishing culture 'samizdat,' which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. LibGen launched around 2008 as a digital version of the same concept. In addition to bypassing 'local' censorship, it's widely used to circumvent the paywalls of major international publishing companies, serving as a popular 'pirate' site for (text)books and academic works. Rightsholders have attempted to take the site offline several times over the years, but none led to concrete results. Today, Libgen.rs, Libgen.is and Libgen.st remain online, but downloading pirated books turns out to be quite a challenge. Inactive LibGen Admin and Downloads? Starting last weekend, regular LibGen downloads suddenly stopped working. The outage suggests that...Read More | At the height of the cyberlocker boom in the early 2010s, Uptobox was already an established name. The platform remained online despite a fierce anti-piracy crackdown that led to the demise of Megaupload, Hotfile, and many other file-hosting services. Uptobox faced some trouble with payment providers but still managed to grow in the decade that followed. Like many other sites of this kind, it was frequently abused by pirates to share copyrighted content. To address this, Uptobox had a takedown policy to swiftly remove those files in response to rightsholders' reports. Uptobox Blocked and Raided Takedowns couldn't prevent the site from being targeted in a site blocking order in France, where roughly a third of the site's 30 million monthly visits originated. The site didn't agree with this decision and, as a countermeasure, informed users how the DNS blockades could be circumvented. For the less technically inclined, Uptobox vowed to contest the site blocking measures in court. How...Read More |
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