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

[Daniel Riaño]

The German site is unreachable for now, but this one can be accesed
http://torrentfreak.com/book-publishers-shut-down-library-nu-and-ifile-it-120215/

2012/2/16 Pirat at LennStar.de <pirat at 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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