Hacker News with Generative AI: Shadow Libraries

'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' (torrentfreak.com)
Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna's Archive. The company's use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle with limited availability and slow download speeds due to a lack of seeders.
Z-Library (wikipedia.org)
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books.
Popular Shadow Library 'LibGen' Breaks Down Amidst Legal Troubles (torrentfreak.com)