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

[Daniel Riaño]

"Initially it was unclear what motivated the site’s owners to take these
drastic actions, but a statement by a coalition of the world’s largest book
publishers including Cambridge University Press, Harper Collins, Elsevier
and John Wiley & Sons, seems to have cleared up the mystery. "

So Elsevier is among the bussiness who payed for the banners on ifile.it,
and also among the plaintiffs. What's going on? Did they use the banners to
get IPs?

2012/2/16 Daniel Riaño <danielrr2 at gmail.com>

> 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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