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Library.nu and Ifile.it Shut Down

Posted by timothy on from the no-books-for-you dept.

Ralph Spoilsport writes "A coalition of 17 publishing companies has shut down library.nu and ifile.it, charging them with pirating ebooks. This comes less than a month after megaupload was shut down, and SOPA was stopped. If the busting of cyberlockers continues at this pace and online library sharing dismantled, this under-reported story may well be the tip of a very big iceberg — one quite beyond the P&L sheets of publishers and striking at basic human rights as outlined in the contradictions of the UN Charter. Is this a big deal — a grim coalition of corporate power? Or just mopping up some scurvy old pirates? Or somewhere in between?" Adds new submitter roaryk, "According to the complaint, the sites offered users access to 400,000 e-books and made more than $11 million in revenue in the process. The admins, Fidel Nunez and Irina Ivanova, have been tracked down using their PayPal donation account, which was not anonymous. Despite the claims of the industry the site admins say they were barely able to cover the server costs with the revenue."

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  1. Re:Slashdot deletes posts by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Informative
    Pay for and run your own web site with an audience, traffic, and exposure (generally, and legally) like this, and see what you think about that subject. If nothing else, just being able to junk the spam is essential. That you think of this as censorship shows that you have no idea what the word means (and what the practice of actual censorship is). This isn't a publicly funded service, crap posts aren't deleted by the government, and dealing with what's posted here is no more censorship than is choosing which letters to the editor to include at the NYT web site.

    Sad

    Well, something is. Just not what you think.

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  2. No, it was Scientologists by langelgjm · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was a post containing text copyrighted by the Church of Scientology, and it happened in 2001.

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  3. Re:MegaUpload bust was highly successful by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just roll over, shrug their shoulders, and say "oh well"?

    No, Mr. Media Giant, I expect you to die.</Goldfinger>

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