Two Russian nationals are now facing criminal charges in the U.S. for their role in running Z-Library, one of the world’s most notorious e-book pirate sites before its domains were seized by U.S. officials earlier this fall. Z-Library, which has been active since 2009, billed itself as “the world’s largest library” and claimed to offer more than 11 million e-books for free download in a variety of file formats via what court documents call a “complex network” of 249 interrelated web domains.
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