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

[Daniel Riaño]

ah the dreams of a "Second coming"

2012/2/16 Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com>

> I am sure they kept a backup and will distribute it on torrent now.
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Pirat at LennStar.de <pirat at lennstar.de>
> wrote:
> > 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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