Recently, the Author’s Guild, which is an American organization for writers that provides advocacy on issues of free expression and copyright protection, highlighted their growing concern over the website. But publishers all over the world have been very unhappy with the website for a long time, with a group in France even winning a site blocking order to prevent people from accessing the site. The site offers over 11 million books and 84 million articles, and has seen a surge in popularity in recent months due to viral TikTok videos. Initially starting out as a completely free service, it changed its model over time, requiring users who had downloaded a certain number of books to subscribe for a fee of a few dollars each month in order to be able to enjoy unlimited downloads. For this reason, it was very popular with students and instructors, and drew over a million unique users each month. Z-Library originally started out as BookFinder, a free shadow library that provided pirated e-books, articles and research papers for free. The website now displays a page that reads “This domain has been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service in accordance with a court order.” The popular e-book torrenting website Z-library that was well-loved by students, academics and bookworms alike for its ability to offer hundreds and thousands of downloadable books for free was taken down today by the United States government in accordance with piracy laws.Įarly morning on Friday, the website, along with all the various servers and domains associated with it, got taken down.

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