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using IPFS on Z-Library? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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ok maybe i'm just being a dumbass. I'm getting textbooks off of z-library per the megathread, as they are the only site that lists the specific books I need currently. I am browsing via TOR.

I can't seem to see a download button or link for the books I am looking for, nor for any other book I open. Maybe this is because I don't have an account. But let's say I don't feel like making one, because that means spinning up another burner email, and and and.... idk. I'm lazy.

I thought I'd be nice and access the content via the IPFS CID using the IPFS desktop node/app thing from here. Zlibrary lists IPFS CID's for all books they host. That will save server load on them and likely be faster for a couple of the 200+MB PDF's.
But it absolutely can NOT find any of the CID's that z-library gives for any of it's content, whether I click browse or inspect in the search box or use the import function, even after I let it sit and run on my extra seed PC for two days to populate the peer list.

I know IPFS must be working as some of the test CID's I used from the tutorial imported ok.

am i being dumb? am I missing the fundamental purpose of the IPFS CID's here or something?

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... and likely be faster for a couple of the 200+MB PDF's.

Natrator: "It wasn't!"

Jokes aside, where do you live where 200MB x some would be considered some heavy storage? I mean me uploading that file to someone would take 2 seconds on my cheap home 1024Mb/s connection. A pro one would probably be way better...

I love the name of IPFS (Inter Planetary File System!), it's cool and all but IMO the technology behind it is not at all living up to it, it's basically just a benevolent storage with static links.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not talking about the storage requirements. I have terabytes of unused SSD; that is irrelevant. The direct links for most zlib or libgen books download at 10-30kb/s for me and can take a few hours for one book, often failing multiple times in between. I was trying to find an alternative, something distributed was likely to be faster.

Very helpful comment.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 10 months ago

I didn't want to be cheeky or something, sorry for that.

The problem might be that the "Inter Planetary File System" is cool just by name.

That's the problem. If I understands correctly anyways what you are doing.