"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. "<br><br>So
Elsevier is among the bussiness who payed for the banners on <a href="http://ifile.it">ifile.it</a>, and also among the plaintiffs. What's going on? Did they use the banners to get IPs?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2012/2/16 Daniel Riaño <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielrr2@gmail.com">danielrr2@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The German site is unreachable for now, but this one can be accesed <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/book-publishers-shut-down-library-nu-and-ifile-it-120215/" target="_blank">http://torrentfreak.com/book-publishers-shut-down-library-nu-and-ifile-it-120215/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/16 Pirat@LennStar.de <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pirat@lennstar.de" target="_blank">pirat@lennstar.de</a>></span><div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Why guess?<br>
<br>
It was knocked down by Big Content. Was even in the news here somewhere.<br>
<br>
ah, here (german):<br>
<a href="http://www.gulli.com/news/18151-17-einstweilige-verfuegungen-wegen-illegaler-e-books-verlage-machen-druck-2012-02-15" target="_blank">http://www.gulli.com/news/18151-17-einstweilige-verfuegungen-wegen-illegaler-e-books-verlage-machen-druck-2012-02-15</a><br>
<br>
"international group of publishers... <a href="http://ifile.it" target="_blank">ifile.it</a> + <a href="http://library.nu" target="_blank">library.nu</a> ... 400K<br>
books, 10 Million US-Dollar money ... one of the most dangerous pirate<br>
websites"<br>
<br>
LennStar<br>
<br>
<br>
Am 16.02.2012 09:16, schrieb Daniel Riaño:<br>
> The site <a href="http://library.nu" target="_blank">library.nu</a> <<a href="http://library.nu" target="_blank">http://library.nu</a>>, described by someone as "the<br>
<div><div>> most amazing book repository since the Alexandrian Library" has silently<br>
> passed away last night: <a href="http://gigapedia.info/lnu.html" target="_blank">http://gigapedia.info/lnu.html</a><br>
><br>
> I know it wasn't exactly a full pirate site: it was not devoted to P2P,<br>
> but to direct downloadings, and it had (we may guess) some profit. But<br>
> it was directed specifically to students, scholars, scientists and<br>
> literary minded people from all the world. Therefore we may be<br>
> interested in knowing what happened. Did the scientists suddenly lost<br>
> their interest in the site? Owners revenue was not enough? or did the<br>
> owners of the site felt such pressure they just gave up? and i so<br>
> pressure by whom? Elzevier had its banners in the site where the links<br>
> were directed to, at least for some time. So which was the business model?<br>
><br>
> For now we may only guess, but I think we should stop guessing and start<br>
> knowing about it!<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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