Interestingly, Z-Library itself happens to be a backup of LibGen.Īs such, what is amply clear from all of this is that simply pulling down one Z-Library won’t mark the end of the battle against hoarders of copyrighted stuff. PiLiMi, in turn, is engaged in creating a backup of shadow libraries that hosts copyrighted materials illegally. They are even showing a message that they shouldn’t be held responsible for the content that users download from a third-party site, and that such acts should be at the sole discretion of the user.Īlso, while there isn’t much that is known about Anna, what has come to the fore is that it is associated with other such archivists such as PiLiMi which stands for Private Library Mirror. It is of the view that since they are not hosting any of the content on their site, that makes their operations legal. Neither Valeriia nor Napolsky seemingly made the slightest efforts to conceal their identity online or to cover their tracks.Īnna’s Archive, meanwhile, is claiming they are just being a search engine, and in that capacity, all that they are doing is direct users to the sites from where they can download the stuff that the users might have been looking for. Interestingly, all of this is just the opposite of what the Russian duo, Valeriia Ermakova, and Anton Napolsky had been up to, which made things easier for the FBI. Anna stated in an interview with Torrent Freak they are doing all they can to conceal their identity or to prevent leaving any trace while incorporating operational security of the highest order. What is amazing is that the archivists are going about doing their job as per a well-thought plan to evade them from being tracked or identified. We also track humanity’s progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form, through ‘shadow libraries.'” The archive also stated on its website they are striving to “catalog all the books in existence, by aggregating data from various sources.

The internet archivist who launched the search engine is also identified as Anna Archive in the world wide web. Take for instance a search engine by the name Anna’s Archive that came into being just days back.

As the website LAWeekly reported, such efforts are being led by internet archivers who are working hard to ‘back up and redistribute’ the content that Z-Library hosted on its site before it was pulled down. Law enforcement agencies might be working overtime to bring to book Z-Library or its perpetrators, but efforts are also on to have up and running something of the same sort as Z-Library, if not the controversial download site itself.

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