25 February 2012

Why Ebook Portal Library.nu Differed From Other Filesharing Sites

A couple of weeks ago the popular ebook portal Library.nu was shut down, apparently voluntarily, after a coalition of book publishers obtained an injunction against it and a similar site. As an excellent post on the kNOw Future Inc. blog points out, Library.nu was significant in a number of ways

On Techdirt.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In my opinion library.nu was the third most important site on the web after google and wikipedia. For a nice article on why it should continue its operation and how it can be (legally) done read this: Free illegal knowledge and how (not) to deal with it