“Actually started crying when i saw this i have to pay a fortune for school books now,” reads the caption on one TikTok with 3.7 million views: actually started crying when i saw this i have to pay a fortune for school books now #greenscreen #colleenhoover #college #university #books ♬ original sound – BloodMan Right now, BookTok is full of readers bemoaning the demise of Z-Lib, many of them focusing on the sudden inaccessibility of academic materials. If you try to visit Z-Lib today, the domains either fail to load or simply lead to a page that reads, “This domain name has been seized by law enforcement.” Meanwhile, Z-Lib was already facing legal pushback overseas. As Z-Lib began to gain more mainstream attention over the past year, the Authors Guild filed an official complaint to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, taking aim at piracy and citing TikTok as a key culprit in promoting Z-Lib to a wider audience. A lot of students rely on it to access otherwise-unaffordable textbooks, but it’s predictably unpopular among authors, who see ebook piracy as a threat to their livelihood. Like the Internet Archive, Z-Lib is pretty divisive. authorities-and readers on TikTok are blaming fans of romance novelist Colleen Hoover.

But after years of operating in plain sight, Z-Lib’s domains have now been seized by U.S. Until recently, Z-Library offered a massive directory of free, pirated ebooks and academic journals.

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