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Introducing the Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that
are not in Libgen)

pilimi.org, 2022-07-01

This project aims to contribute to the preservation and libration of
human knowledge. We make our small and humble contribution, in the
footsteps of the greats before us.

The focus of this project is illustrated by its name:
Pirate - We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries.
This allows us to do something that legal entities cannot do: making
sure books are mirrored far and wide.
Library - Like most libraries, we focus primarily on written
materials like books. We might expand into other types of media in
the future.
Mirror - We are strictly a mirror of existing libraries. We focus on
preservation, not on making books easily searchable and downloadable
(access) or fostering a big community of people who contribute new
books (sourcing).

The first library that we have mirrored is Z-Library. This is a
popular (and illegal) library. They have taken the Library Genesis
collection and made it easily searchable. On top of that, they have
become very effective at solliciting new book contributions, by
incentivizing contributing users with various perks. They currently
do not contribute these new books back to Library Genesis. And unlike
Library Genesis, they do not make their collection easily mirrorable,
which prevents wide preservation. This is important to their business
model, since they charge money for accessing their collection.

We do not make moral judgements about charging money for an illegal
book collection. It is beyond a doubt that the Z-Library has been
successful in expanding access, and sourcing more books. We are
simply here to do our part: ensuring the long-term preservation of
this private collection.

We would like to invite you to help preserve and liberate human
knowledge by downloading and seeding our torrents. See the project
page for more information about how the data is organized.

We would also very much invite you to contribute your ideas for which
collections to mirror next, and how to go about it. Together we can
achieve much. This is but a small contribution among countless
others. Thank you, for all that you do.

- Anna and the Pirate Library Mirror team

The Z-Library Collection (data)