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Old Yesterday, 08:34 AM   #31
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Being able to see the file extension doesn't matter in this case - people don't see kamasutra.epub.exe (it's hidden), they're seeing 'this opens the ebook.lnk.'
Yeah, this makes the most sense to me.
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Seems to me that the ebooks themselves don't contain malware, the archives do. Why should anyone want to run an unknown executable from a random rar archive when they actually wanted an ebook is beyond me, but people are capable of doing some very stupid things.
This makes me worried if sites like Library Genesis could be impacted by this.
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I can't imagine why Library Genesis, Z library and others aren't taken down.
They are cheating authors.
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This makes me worried if sites like Library Genesis could be impacted by this.
Not unless they're uploading RAR files.

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I can't imagine why Library Genesis, Z library and others aren't taken down.
They are cheating authors.
Hosted in Russia, I think. I think ZLib's domain got seized a few years back but that didn't do much.
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This makes me worried if sites like <site name deleted>s could be impacted by this.
It's not an issue as those are illegal eBooks anyway. YOu should not be mentioned sites to download illegal eBooks.
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All of the posts with the names of these illegal sites should be edited to remove the site names.
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Relax, Jon. No links have been posted. It's not against the rules to mention things like Pirate Bay (yeah, I'm showing my age!).
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Relax, Jon. No links have been posted. It's not against the rules to mention things like Pirate Bay (yeah, I'm showing my age!).
You and me both. I thought that was the site everyone was hinting about
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Hosted in Russia, I think. I think ZLib's domain got seized a few years back but that didn't do much.
There are a couple of other Russian-hosted sites with pirate ebooks that do takedowns when requested...booksee comes to mind. I don't know if Library Genesis honors takedowns, but if it does, that might be why it's still up.
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Relax, Jon. No links have been posted. It's not against the rules to mention things like Pirate Bay (yeah, I'm showing my age!).
I know no links have been posted, but these sites can be looked up based on the names.
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I know no links have been posted, but these sites can be looked up based on the names.
And I explained why we don't care. We can't stop people from looking up sites they shouldn't, and we're not going to try (so long as they're not posting direct links to them).

Now advocating that people should visit and use such sites?? THAT will get you dinged.

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