Zlibrary getting taken down feels like the burning of the library of alexandria of our time- ً November 4, 2022

Her tweet was retweeted by more than 1300 users and liked by more than 10000 users. “Zlibrary getting taken down is probably the worst thing to ever happen to me,” read a tweet by user Samia. Non paying users could download up to 5 books a day on the website.īooks were available on a vast array of subjects from bestselling popular novels to unreleased advance reader copies or academic books or documents, from journals to magazines, you name it and z library had it.Īs per the data, the website had been active in this field of pirated database since 2009. Around 11,087,784 books and 84,937,645 articles were available on Z library this September. Online pirated e-book database, also recognised as shadow library, Z library had proved to be a boon to the people with its easy and convenient accessibility features. Users had access to more than 10 million e-books cost-free but with a limited number of monthly downloads, to have access to more, a nominal fee was required. On Friday, when the readers tried to log in to the website, an unusual bannerpopped up which read, “This domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with warrant issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C & 981 (b) and 21 U.S.C. & 853 (f) by the United States District Court for the Eastern District Of New York as a part of a law enforcement action by: The United Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and The Federal Bureau of Investigation,”demarcating the end of an era, a journey of a platform. Z library, an online platform for all book enthusiasts and students for downloading free e-books is no longer operating after US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seizes the website domain.

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