U.S. charges Russian suspects with operating Z-Library e-Book site
peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-11-17
Summary:
"Anton Napolsky (33) and Valeriia Ermakova (27), two Russian nationals, were charged with intellectual property crimes linked to Z-Library, a pirate online eBook repository.
The defendants were arrested on November 3, 2022, in Argentina by the country's authorities at the request of U.S. law enforcement.
A day later, Z-Library's clearnet domains (z-lib.org, b-ok.org, and 3lib.net) were seized by the Department of Justice and the FBI, although the fate of the operators was unknown to the public at that time.
Z-Library was one of the world's largest public and free-to-access written content repositories, containing 11 million books and 84 million articles in a massive 220 TB database...."