Jeff Cutsinger

In light of the Internet Archive losing its appeal to hachette, I just wanted to point out some websites you should avoid:

* https://annas-archive.li/
* https://downmagaz.net/
* https://ebook-hunter.org/
* https://forcoder.net/
* https://freemagazines.top/
* https://liber3.eth.limo/

If you were to download books from these websites, you might cut into hachette's more than three billion dollars of annual revenue. So make sure to avoid those websites and the following:

* https://libgen.is/
* https://oceanofpdf.com/
* https://pdfroom.com/
* https://pdfstop.com/
* https://pdfdrive.to/
* https://pdfmagazines.club/
* https://sci-hub.se/
* https://singlelogin.re/
* ... or any of the other sites listed at https://rentry.co/megathread-books

#internetarchive

Anna’s Archive: LibGen (Library Genesis), Sci-Hub, Z-Library in one place - Anna’s Archive

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.

Sep 5, 2024 at 12:20pmWeb
Show threadAlexTECPlayzSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Also avoid libgen.li and libgen.rs, or any of its mirrors. Surely, we shouldn't affect the revenue of companies like these. God forbid they get less money.
Show thread0megaSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Thanks! I'll definitely make sure that I'm never going to visit those evil websites 👀
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Sep 5, 2024

@jeffcutsinger Just want to point out that Z-Library is also on fedi at @Z_Lib_official , and has ⁠Tor Onion services available.

Z-Library - Wikipedia

Show threadsapphic girlthing doll {cb9d119}Sep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger considering my desire to hoard... and little money.. and that well, buying japanese books is needlessly overcomplicated... bless cute websites like these, that surely, no one should use :3
Show threadJLSigmanSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger You really think all authors are rich, huh?
Show threadsteeznsonSep 6, 2024
@jlsigman @jeffcutsinger It really depends on the publication. Academic textbooks which go for hundreds of £/$/whatever, and are necessary for a university course, are moral to pirate imo.
Show threadLondon Eastfield 🇵🇸Oct 1, 2024
@jlsigman @jeffcutsinger GTFO!?! Did you also believe that record companies actually *payed* artists on their labels? 😂
Show threadPedro Lucas PorcellisSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Bit out of the loop, where should we grab stuff now, then?
Show threadTodd A. Jacobs | RubyistSep 5, 2024

@jeffcutsinger AI/ML data aggregators aren't sharing their data openly or adhering to the #FOSS licenses & #TOS of data they scrape from less litigious content creators. This is a criminal act.

Copyright theft hurts independent writers, bloggers, educators & journalists more than big media groups. This insults every open-source & open-content creator. #DRM isn't the answer, and neither is paying off big media. #OpenAI and others should either pay for that data, share alike, or exclude it.

Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Sep 5, 2024

@jeffcutsinger

Excellent PSA, I will studiously avoid all of these sites, as I of course have never visited any of them inn the past.

Show threadJesper Agdakx 🔸Sep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Thanks, I'm bookmarking this just in case I'm ever not sure whether a website I am visiting is fine.
Show threadAlan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏Sep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Perfect. Now building a list of sites to search for my work and file take-down requests against. Because when you're not one of the big four, every dollar counts, lots.
Show threadJason Bowen 🇺🇦Sep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Thank you for letting me know where to stay away from. I feel safer.
Show threadRue MohrSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger If anyone sees someone trying to throw a brick thru the window of Hachettes headquarters at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, it would be good to stop them.
Show threadRue MohrSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger ( we dont want David Shelley to not be able to share the company profits with its workers due to lost money on broken windows )
Show threadArtificial StupiditySep 5, 2024

@jeffcutsinger
God's work! Warning people not to visit these awful sites!

@th3rdsergeevich

Show threadJames BrittSep 5, 2024

@jeffcutsinger

Thank you for helping me stay on the right side of the law.

Likewise, people who visit video sites should definitely avoid yt-dlp.

And pay no attention to people who say it works on audio sites as well. They work for the devil.

Show threadFoxQuirk 🦊Sep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger thank you! I shall bookmark this for future reference
Show threadNazaniSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger
IA is still my go-to for 19th century fashion journals & bizarre Victorian novels. Why pay for new historical fiction when one can read the craziness Great-Grandma read?
Show threadDofainSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Wooops, my finger slipped and I retooted this by mistake
Show threadClayfootSep 5, 2024
@jeffcutsinger God forbid you learn what your local library system has to offer: ebooks, albums, movies, audio books, music streaming, free access to major newspapers and magazines online
Show threadBrian DearSep 5, 2024

@jeffcutsinger

I did 32 fucking years of research and writing at ~$250K personal expense in order to get my tech history book, The Friendly Orange Glow, done. Pantheon, an imprint of one of the plaintiffs in this case, published my book in 2017.

I really don’t find it cool that pirates have illegal PDFs of my book on all the shit sites you list, I don’t care what Doctorow says: support the author and buy, don’t steal, their fucking book, costing same as a few microbrewery beers ffs.

Show threadjwithy Sep 6, 2024

@brianstorms @jeffcutsinger

That’s a lot of time and money! Congrats on the book! I’ll go check it out!

I think a lot of what is coming out right now is that a ton of students in places where they absolutely can’t even dream of buying textbooks are now really hampered by that internet archive verdict. Links like this might be their next resort. What a bummer, yeah?

Show threadBrian DearSep 6, 2024

@jwithy @jeffcutsinger

What publishers charge these days for textbooks, esp. college-level, is brutal, brazen, obscene. Driven by unchecked greed. It’s like blatant price-gouging and I’m surprised the Biden admin hasn’t stepped in to do something, the way he has for student loans.

Show threadRoberto von ArchimboldiSep 7, 2024

@brianstorms @jeffcutsinger do let us know if your sales go up now that your publisher had their way.

Here's thing about non fiction, as you know, its audience is researchers. Putting together even a short paper takes years of work and a massive quantity of reading. You do that, and have always done that, by going to the library. Even well paid tenured academics don't have the money or the need to buy thousands of books just for the half chapter that might become a footnote. The evidence given by the internet archive is that the average loan was about 20 minutes.

Losing the open library restricts access to academia to those with an affiliation to a university that can afford the crazily expensive subscriptions to the big publishers. That is really sad in itself. It is also really about Hackette et al maintaining their ability to take rent from the work of researchers.

Show threadpara_paramoneySep 29, 2024
@brianstorms @jeffcutsinger you seem to be blinded by your own personal suffering. Information should be free. You can still sell nice printed books, I will always keep buying physical books. But stop whining about a pdf of your book being online and making that into an argument against free knowledge sharing
Show threadBrian DearSep 29, 2024

@para_paramoney @jeffcutsinger

wow. impressive. yeah, well, whatever.

Show threadqueer lil bumble 🐝Sep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger thanks I'll be sure to never access these site nor download their contents!
Show threadtootbruteSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger great. i'll just start my own personal internet archive that i will share with family and friends. #internetarchive
Show threadEunakriaSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger regardless of where you stand on piracy, it is an unambiguous shame that the only major *legal* online library (which practices lending instead of digital copying) was shut down with a metaphorical side-eye at other, smaller legal online libraries, because it's only going to push people to pirate libraries like AA and ZL
Show threadJonathan MoosekianSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger @rose_alibi holy shit! When worlds collide!
Show threadJeff CutsingerSep 6, 2024
@johnnysbug @rose_alibi ha! This post was wildly popular for some reason. I had no idea you were on here! Hope you are doing well
Show threadJonathan MoosekianSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger @rose_alibi happy to reconnect! I was just mentioning you the other day and how I had lost touch. I don’t think I’ve talked to you since J’s wedding
Show threadrAdio frEe mETa Sep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Thank you for this comprehensive list. I was unsure about who I was going to blacklist and I guess it's going to be Hachette. To Freedom!
Show threadsalguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupperSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Thank you for this detailed warning!
Show threadSoozcatSep 6, 2024

@jeffcutsinger Bookmarking to ensure I never go to any of these places to pirate anything.

Arr. Uh, I mean yes.

Show threadThomas LobigSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger thanks for the warning, I'll bookmark this so I will remember to not accidentally visit any of these links
Show threadJulianoëSep 6, 2024

@jeffcutsinger One I've not seen listed in Zlibrary, the domain of which tends to change regularly but other people have shared it in these responses.

Also be sure to avoid https://www.myanonamouse.net/ at all costs.

Login | My Anonamouse

Show threadJulianoëSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger @tk if any francophones see this response and have specifically francophone libraries to share, please do !
Show threadpeotr26Sep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Hachette also belongs to the most influential fascist billionaire in France, Bolloré, that used his media empire to push his reactionary agenda.
Show threadLe Podthécaire 🔻Sep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger Yeah, that would be bad.
Show threadrednikkiSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger @dwenius Piracy hurts authors and gets books cancelled. Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle is just one example: https://shannonhale.tumblr.com/post/166954230215/maggie-stiefvater-ive-decided-to-tell-you-guys/amp
Shannon Hale — maggie-stiefvater: I’ve decided to tell you guys...

Show threadGerbrand van DieyenSep 6, 2024
@jeffcutsinger My current provider odido/ tmobile blocks some of the links. Not certain if that’s for all Dutch providers. Probably need some vpn #Odido
Show threadInternetDev-Anti-Communicant🍉Sep 7, 2024

@jeffcutsinger

J'ai faillis y aller, merci de m'avoir mis en garde !!!!

OUF !!!🤣

Show threadSarah, The Website TherapistSep 7, 2024
@jeffcutsinger @stib just saying, for no particular reason, I’ve heard of people pirating music/books then making a donation directly to the artist/author which would be far more than a publisher would pass on.
Show thread0x4d6165 (Julie or Mae)Sep 7, 2024
@jeffcutsinger there's also private trackers! myanonamouse dot net 🐁
Show threadxekolaNov 13, 2024
@jeffcutsinger <3