[pp.int.general] Library.nu is dead

[Giulio Prisco]

This is very bad news. I guess it must have been a combination of low
revenue and (fear of) external pressure.
A central content repository requires a lot of work, so money must
come in. No way one can risk jail for pennies.
Fortunately central repositories of files and .torrents may become
obsolete (see Tribler article on TorrentFreak).

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Riaño <danielrr2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The site library.nu, described by someone as "the most amazing book
> repository since the Alexandrian Library" has silently passed away last
> night: http://gigapedia.info/lnu.html
>
> I know it wasn't exactly a full pirate site: it was not devoted to P2P, but
> to direct downloadings, and it had (we may guess) some profit. But it was
> directed specifically to students, scholars, scientists and literary minded
> people from all the world. Therefore we may be interested in knowing what
> happened. Did the scientists suddenly lost their interest in the site?
> Owners revenue was not enough? or did the owners of the site felt such
> pressure they just gave up? and i so pressure by whom? Elzevier had its
> banners in the site where the links were directed to, at least for some
> time. So which was the business model?
>
> For now we may only guess, but I think we should stop guessing and start
> knowing about it!
>
>
>
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