Ebook download site library.nu shut down by coalition of international publishers
Ebook download site library.nu shut down by coalition of international publishers By Adi Robertson on February 16, 2012 09:47 am 46 COMMENTS 7 in Share In the wake of Megaupload's shutdown , anti-piracy groups are pushing through action against other sites that host or link to pirated works. Ebook link site library.nu is the latest to go dark after being served a cease-and-desist order by a group of over a dozen publishers, including Oxford University Press and Elsevier. The group alleged that the site contained links to 400,000 pirated ebooks, which were hosted on cyberlocker ifile.it, and that the two sites had generated 8 million euros ($10.4 million US) in advertising, though it's not clear whether that's an annual number or a total over library.nu's roughly five-year tenure. Unlike library.nu, ifile.it is still operational, but has disabled anonymous uploading and removed ebook files associated with library.nu. Besides being probably the big