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If e-books getting pirated, sometimes within just hours of those getting listed online, isn't enough for the authors to deal with, many of them reported their
Two Russians operating the world's largest pirated e-Book library were taken down. In a world where people rely mostly on subscriptions to get their latest online premium content, piracy is still a massive problem, with the Feds closing the book on an entity called "Z-Library," operated by two Russian nationals.
Two Russians have been charged with copyright piracy and fraud for running the globally popular Z-Library website, which offered free downloads of millions of books, the Justice Department announced on November 16.
Popular for its extensive archive of free textbooks, Z-Library was shut down after going viral on TikTok.
On November 4, domain names of Z-Library, the website which claimed to be the world’s largest ebook library, were seized by the US Department of Justice.