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Giant Pirate Virtual Library ‘Z-Library’ Goes Offline After Investigation

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The website of Z-Library, the world’s largest pirated virtual library, has been seized by the police. USA In the month of November. However, even after blocking, the materials are available The dark web.

Those responsible for the platform published a statement on their official blog about the event after the Russians were arrested for running the page. In this article, you can learn a little more about the topic and how this problem stands in general.

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The platform has an average of 12 million copies

The entire procedure was made public on the 18th in a post released by the authors of the website. They asserted that it all started on the 3rd, when the platform went offline because the government took over the domains.

14 days later, on the 17th, the US government named Russians Anton Napolsky and Valeria Ermakova as responsible for the site, and both were arrested. However, in the post shared by the site, they do not mention the arrest of Russian suspects.

This investigation and intervention was supported by two large companies: Amazon and Google. The site, in a statement, apologized and accepted responsibility for any damage caused to writers.

The publication of the organizers of the site proves that they are interested in running it. Because at the end of the writing, they declare that they are ready to act when they receive questions about copyright.

In this publication, the authors thank their users for their support and contributions. The FBI still owns the library’s domains, so it’s unclear whether the site will work outside of the dark web. This whole situation has created a lot of discussion on social networks about access to reading.

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