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In case anyone hasn't seen the hilarious scare screen on one of the seized ZLibrary domains. lol (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"zomg russian cyber criminals are using free books to fund their lavish lifestyles!!!!!!1!1!!!!1! you should go support ~~corporate rent seeking publishers~~ 'creators' by paying thousands for basic knowledge!!!11"

this shit sounds like it was written by a middle schooler making a history presentation. it's hilarious

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I found out about this the other day and the first impression I got was that someone hacked their server and put this just for laughs.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's legit, it's been up a hot minute (since May iirc). I clicked the wrong zlibrary bookmark out of reflex and then remembered how hilarious the scare screen was.