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

[Daniel Riaño]

More info

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/librarynu-book-downloading-injunction_n_1280383.html?ref=books



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

> "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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