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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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 10 months 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 20 points 10 months ago

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

[+] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com -8 points 10 months 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 36 points 10 months 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 -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] rdwxth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

the namecheap domain was bought using fake details on a paypal that had no card connected to it - but i understand which is why i bought a .ru domain from cheapprivacy.ru

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago

doesn’t exploit the copyrighted material for financial gain

@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone mentioned Alexandra Elbakyan. Do you know who that is? Aaron Schwartz ended up dead just for having a lot of journal articles and giving away a bunch of public domain materials.

bulletproof servers

Oh my.. You sound really unprepared for what you are getting into. There is no such thing as perfect security. And if someone sold you on that premise, you were tricked.

Even if your host is doing the absolute best job possible, your group can still screw it up any one of a million ways. Given the cavalier attitude here, that's going to be happening soon and happening often.

Honestly you sound like a total heat score..