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

[Pirat@LennStar.de]

Why guess?

It was knocked down by Big Content. Was even in the news here somewhere.

ah, here (german):
http://www.gulli.com/news/18151-17-einstweilige-verfuegungen-wegen-illegaler-e-books-verlage-machen-druck-2012-02-15

"international group of publishers... ifile.it + library.nu ... 400K
books, 10 Million US-Dollar money ... one of the most dangerous pirate
websites"

LennStar


Am 16.02.2012 09:16, schrieb Daniel Riaño:
> The site library.nu <http://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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