Yeah, GB and Gb are clearly defined. But the flyer says “gig”

What is actually being offered here? It says ‘2 gig’ in several places, I assume that means 2 Gb/s? No way that’s actually 2 GB/s, right?

I hate imprecise language in advertisements, smh

What studying natural sciences does to a mf (I am intimately familiar with the Greek alphabet, despite not speaking a word of Greek)

Okay, then answer me this: if I say “Russia is acting like Nazi Germany”, is it Volksverhetzung? Would it get removed on feddit.org citing German law?

If not, why? Where in law does Israel get special treatment? Or is it policy after all?

A simple comparison between a state and Nazi Germany does not fall under that. Or else, how many people have been charged for comparing Russia to the Nazis since they invaded Ukraine? This is only applicable if you hold the position that Israel and the Jewish people are synonymous, which is not true, it is anchored nowhere in German law, and is the very point this post addresses: the IHRA working definition is wholly unsuited for political or judicial dealings.

And you should read yet further, the thing they got charged for was the swastika:

Das Argument der Richter lautet, kurz gesagt: Wer eine solche Karikatur postet, der scheint mit den Verbrechen der Nazis eher keine Probleme zu haben. Dann aber darf er nicht ungestraft das Hakenkreuz verwenden.

This court ruling was in Bavaria and quite controversial at the time, btw. But even in it’s most generous reading it does not say what you claim it does.

Which law? Which law applies here? The article you posted is not relevant to the comment at hand

They got charged for showing swastikas outside of what the court deemed educational context. Not relevant, read your own article:

Das Gericht verweist auf das Hakenkreuz, das in der Karikatur verwendet wird. Das Hakenkreuz ist grundsätzlich ein verbotenes Symbol nach Paragraf 86a des Strafgesetzbuchs. Es ist nur legal, dieses Symbol zu zeigen, wenn man damit einen legitimen politischen Zweck verfolgt - zum Beispiel historische Aufklärung, oder etwa Warnung vor Neonazis.

Accepting the IHRA definition is not law, it’s policy. Die Linke rejects it in favor of the Jerusalem declaration, for instance. Likewise, advocating for a secular one state solution or a two state solution are both perfectly legal. Calling for an end of material support, also legal. The only part that could, by a wide stretch of the imagination, be against German law is listing Nazi Germany in the list of comparisons. But since this is not saying “Israel is exactly like Nazi Germany”, even that would be on very shaky grounds.

Stop pretending this is about German law. This is about political opinions, and these opinions are Zionism

Baseless accusation, completely off topic. You’re not helping the allegations that feddit.org is full of Zionists

You’re right, and I’m sorry if I came over as condescending. The thing is, with projects like these, you need to front load a lot of the safety concerns if you are going to be the one actually hosting the content. It’d be an easier entry to contribute to existing structures, staying more low-key and learning along the way. Many established projects are open-source and need programmers and hackers to help improve and secure their codebases, for example.

That said, if you wanted to start something of your own, I think Anna’s blog is a nice starting point, before you delve into the technical nitty-gritty:

https://annas-archive.org/blog/blog-how-to-become-a-pirate-archivist.html

https://annas-archive.org/blog/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html

Then, for the actual hosting process, much depends on the stack you use. Never pay for anything in a way that can be traced, which basically only leaves cash or anonymous crypto like Monero. Don’t use any account names, emails, passwords, etc that you’ve ever used before. Never, ever go boasting to strangers, or even worse, friends, about what you’re doing. Do all the standard things of hardening your servers, but always plan around some or all of them being shut down it seized. Even “bulletproof hosting” providers get raided every once in a while. That means decentralization, and don’t put convenience over safety.

Now, while shadow libraries and other forms of media piracies certainly are sought-after targets, you’re likely not going to be anyone’s number one priority, while there’s still rings of child abusers and terrorists on the web. But once you reach a certain size, state actors will come after you, like they did after z-lib a while ago. I don’t have any comprehensive guides on Opsec (and I’m no expert on it, by any measure), but most of it boils down to common sense and keeping your mouth shut, anyways. Most people that get busted don’t have missed some technical vulnerability, but because they’ve talked about their illegal projects on accounts linked to their real name, or something similarly trivial.

Becoming a provider (on any significant scale) should be treated like a second job, at least. If you want to go the silent route, you need to completely separate your daily life from the illegal stuff. Obvious stuff, like no shared email- or other accounts, but even down to no shared browser sessions. The old fashioned way is a second laptop. If you want to make an impact and contribute to the community, consider seeding torrents for some of the existing shadow libraries. Anna’s Archive has about a petabyte of torrents that have less than three seeders, for example.

From the responses in this thread, it seems like OP is either a fed, or, much more likely, extremely inexperienced and naive when it comes to Opsec. At the very least, they are putting themselves at risk. Is it still advisable to leave this post up?

The publishers don’t care. They’re suing LibGen, scihub, etc nonetheless. Non-commercialism will not protect you. Crypto can be very traceable, it’s by definition an open ledger, and “bulletproof servers” is a term applied very broadly, often by dubious actors. Besides that, any Opsec is only as strong as the weakest link. You’re running a second domain via Namecheap, for fucks sake! Don’t take this lightly, this is not a game. A state actor could probably identify you within days. Are you ready for that?

that’s not how it works. the code and website may live on, but you are committing a crime right now (nothing wrong with that). If law enforcement comes after you, it won’t matter if you’ve ‘stepped away’ in the mean time. You can either go the route of Anna, keep very tight Opsec and make sure nothing seeps through the cracks. Or you go the way of Alexandra Elbakyan, make your piracy public, to make a point. That means you willingly accept never being able to travel anywhere that has enforced copyright laws. If you half-ass it somewhere in between, you will get caught, and you will face prison time or hefty fines (potentially millions). Are you aware of that?

that’s good and all, but as it stands now, it seems almost guaranteed your PII will leak. Are you okay to never set foot into a country that extradites to the US again?

Fair, at least as long as they’re not open-source

putting aside the obvious glowie talk someone else raised, you should really, really reconsider your opsec. And I mean, really. Using discord to communicate? And spamming Reddit, from a non-dedicated account, no less? Posting PII to justify downtimes? If this gets any traction at all, you’re in deep shit. There’s a good reason Anna is as anonymous as she is. Cat is out of the bag at this point, I’d recommend shutting it down. You could always continue developing the code for it, the frontend looks pretty good. But please, reconsider if you have the dedication and knowledge it takes to run a shadow library and not be caught.

I got a NAS with 24GB, that’s spread around three harddrives, yes. The files are a binary container format, it’s described here. So I could unpack them, but I have no reason to, really. Much easier to get the individual books I want. Each torrent is usually about 250GB, but some of the older ones are much larger or smaller

🤓☝️ akshually, crucial and essential are adjectives