They start removing links from one of the biggest platforms

A wind of change is blowing in Telegram. After the arrest in France of its CEO, Pavel Durov, a historic change is coming for Telegram, with a 180-degree turn in many policies that made it different from other messaging apps and made it more attractive to many users; such as, for example, its commitment to privacy or the freedom to use the app as they please.

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This is the most significant change in Telegram’s history, but it is not the only one; everything indicates that the application has also strengthened its policy on piracy, even if nothing has officially changed. As reported TorrentFreakand EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre was able to verify the messages published by one of the most popular Telegram channels, Z-Library, They are deleted one after the other.

More specifically, the messages concerned are those which have links to a download page of books of all kinds. In this case, instead of the original message, a notice appears stating “This message could not be displayed on your device due to copyright infringement”. The original content of the message has been lost, although user reactions remain.

With over half a million subscribers, Z-Library is one of the most popular pirate platforms for its ease of use and for taking advantage of one of Telegram’s most useful features: bot creation. The Z-Library bot is able to send notifications to users with links to the download site, so that they are always informed about possible changes.

This is important because Z-Library, like other download sites, is constantly fleeing lawsuits from rights holders. Using DMCA requests, owners can ask services to stop hosting pirated content; this forces communities like Z-Library to constantly evolving fieldswith a different address every few weeks or even days. For this reason, many pirate pages create a bot on Telegram that informs at any time what the latest address of the page is.

Removing links on the Z-Library channel can have disastrous consequences for users, who suddenly lose the most reliable way to find the hacked page. Although there are other methods to find the Z-Library page, it is easy to find it fake copies of the page, which spread malware and viruses in your files; This measure will certainly affect the number of downloads made from the main page.

Although Telegram, like all companies, accepts DMCA requests, its commitment to anti-piracy has always been questioned; channels offering downloads or links to hacked pages have proliferated in recent years, apparently without Telegram doing anything to address them. While it is possible that this is just a coincidence, it is striking that the mass deletion of messages is happening along with Telegram policy change which allows user data to be shared.