zlacker

Yeah, I had to look closely as well to figure out what this was saying. The core reasoning seems to be this one sentence: "Printed books are a zone of resistance against the neon god of the algorithm since tinkering with code can’t delete their contents, as hackers recently did with the Internet Archive."

But you don't have to retreat from software entirely. You can read offline to keep someone over the network from tampering with contents. You can advocate for and obtain DRM-free experiences so tampering is easier to spot. You can make many copies of the bits for yourself, leaning into one of software's great strengths. So I think there are many ways to resist the "neon god" here. But we do each of us have to think for ourselves about the consequences of our choices.

>>akkart+(OP)
If only there was a place starting with p and ending with "irate bay" where you could get forever copies of books.

>>llm_tr+Ov
One problem, though: purveyors of forever copies don't themselves last forever.

>>llm_tr+Ov
i think most folks have moved on from tpb to either zlib or DRM free legal sources (like Kobo)

>>llm_tr+Ov
Piratebay has always been a poor source for most books. Another site that gets much less attention than zlibrary is as far as I'm concerned an incredible source of books. libgen.

>>llm_tr+Ov
Books last longer than hard drives.