Hey everyone! 📚 I’m excited to introduce Bookracy, an open-source shadow library dedicated to preserving and freely sharing knowledge. With a large and growing collection, Bookracy is (annoying) ad-free, non-profit, and lightning-fast ⚡—plus, it’s fully open-source and powered by a passionate community. Whether you're a reader, researcher, or developer, there’s a place for you here. Check out our Reddit, website, GitHub, and hop into our Discord to join the conversation and help grow this movement for open access! 🤝❤️

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 136 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

our model is just like the old movie-web, we are open source and if we are DMCA'd then we will take it down but our mirrors will still be up but i understand the opsec point and may move from discord to signal

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 hours ago

Are you saying there is a way to escape my student loa*s forever?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

since its open source and the backend will be open source in the future (after i rewrite) i can still step away from the project and everything can be taken and hosted by a different person

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 minutes ago

Bookracy doesn’t exploit the copyrighted material for financial gain, unlike typical piracy websites that might sell access to pirated content or host popup / redirect ads for profit And for the part of me commiting a crime its always innocent until proven guilty - if it can be proven im storing the books fair play but weve taken precautions against that paying through crypto bulletproof servers ect

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

My opsec doesn't allow for any Russian projects at all

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

having a .ru domain is just precaution against takedowns - none of the devs are russian its just the west and russia dont get along so takedown requests for a .ru domain would be ignored by russia

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] bastionntb@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Tried downloading a book and it's just giving an error saying it failed to download. Book name

God i norsk 1 - Tekstbok A1/A2 : norsk for voksne innvandrere

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

you can download the textbook here https://dl.bookracy.ru/download/8d4745279f239f2b7c8fac8d41d714e2/God%20i%20norsk%201%20.pdf

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

thanks for the heads up about the bug ill fix it asap content is still being torrented and another 1mill books will be added to the collection in a few days so for larger files like these it may be in that collection

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

This is giving me Fed vibes

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

i can assure you this isnt a fed op lmao. idk how i can convince you maybe check out the github and check out the devs? some devs are from other big projects like movie-web ect that got taken down.

plus downloads arent hidden behind registration, and we are addnig accounts in the future but its going to be mullvad style - a 12 digit unique identifier so privacy wise theres nothing tying you to the downloads except your ip, which we also dont save so you are fine

[–] freeman@feddit.org 2 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

Probably because you use a lot of proprietary platforms like discord, reddit, github, twitter and you have apparently very bad opsec. If someone would do something illegal, they wouldnt be so careless about it. Thats the assumption probabyl

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

our whole model is to be easily self hostable and open source - just like movie-web (who had devs openly showing their names and faces ect in their github profiles) as for my bad opsec im just a hobbyist developer who is contributing to an open source project for fun - nothing else can be proven

[–] dhaonna_aontaithe@midwest.social 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Fed as in?

I'm new to Lenny and wouldn't mind learning the lingo.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

In the piracy world, “fed” is short for Federal Bureau of Investigation police officer.

[–] bastionntb@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 hours ago

I think they means it's a federal operation, a honey pot for a government to crack down on piracy.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Thanks, this sounds like a great project! Also, glad dbzer0 was your choice of a community :)

Is there an rogue date where you'll release it to be open source?

Also, seeing you mentioned ad-free, i'm curious about this.

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

i meant annoying ad free as in no redirect or popup ads - we still need a way to fund the project since donations are scarce

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Understandable, apologies if it sounded like i found it annoying; i prefer it like this anyway :) was just curious about that point.

Thanks again for this great project!

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

nah no worries i just realised i might have come off as hostile lmao 😁 ty for the support

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

btw the frontend is all open source - the backend will be open source in a month or two after the reqwrite

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