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Book Publishers ‘Shut Down’ Library.nu and iFile-it

The book download portal Library.nu and cyberlocker ifile.it appear to have ‘shut down’ voluntarily after a coalition of book publishers managed to get an injunction against the two sites. 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.

libraryDuring the past week users of the popular book downloading portal Library.nu started to notice that the site no longer carried links to files.

Today delivered another surprise when the site suddenly began redirecting to Google books.

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.

The publishers obtained an injunction against Library.nu and the cyberlocker ifile.it from the regional court in Munich. They claimed that both sites were operating an unauthorized “internet library” that made available more than 400,000 high-quality e-books. In addition, the publishers said the sites made $11 million in revenue.

The court agreed with the publishers and the owners of the sites were served with an order to halt their infringing activities.

As a result, both sites have voluntarily pulled their services offline. Library.nu now redirects to Google books and ifile.it has put up a message stating “no upload servers currently available.”

However, this doesn’t mean that the picture painted by the book publishers is accurate. TorrentFreak spoke to the owner of ifile.it who told us that they can barely cover the server costs with the revenue they make.

“The site only had premium accounts since November 2011. It was free since 2006 and still is free for those who want to use it for free,” the owner told us.

The legal team of the publishers estimated the revenue based on page impressions as well as estimated income from premium accounts, but this figure is laughable according to the ifile.it owner, which makes sense considering the site’s modest size.

The owner further said they always try cooperate with publishers and that the site is still fully operational for registered users.

Responding to the news, the book publishers declared victory.

“This action reflects our commitment to protecting secure, safe, and legitimate use of the Internet,” said Stephen M. Smith, President and CEO of John Wiley & Sons.

“It is also evidence of the growing strength of the international community of content creators and providers taking all available legal measures against large illegal platforms,” he added.

Jens Bammel of the International Publishers Association, the umbrella organization responsible for tracking down the owners of the two sites, described the file-sharing sites as criminal outfits.

“The global publishing industry has once again shown that it can and will stand up against large-scale organised copyright crime,” Bammel says commenting on the news.

“We will not tolerate free-loaders who make unearned profits by depriving authors and publishers of their due compensation. This is an important step towards more transparent, honest, and fair trade of digital content on the Internet,” he added.

Despite the preliminary success, there are no guarantees that both sites will remain inactive. ifile.it, for example, is still working as usual for registered users.

Update: response added from the ifile.it owner, who noted that they only shut down anonymous uploads.

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  • Anonymous

    If anyone happens to have many things that was torrented on library.nu consider making torrents for everyone.
    sharing is caring.

    • Jg

      I have 25% of LNU. Will make torrents soon.

      • Adityanyk

        hey please make a torrent and upload before soon

        • Anon

          OP will surely deliver

      • Sinamayyahi

        thank you alot please notify me if you torrent it…
        sinamayyahi@ymail.com

      • Quintana Marcel

        Hi Jg! The site http://librarypirate.me/?p=home&pid=1 has many torrents of books, and it would be a good catalogue for your uploaded books… Thanks a lot!

  • http://theupwind.blogspot.com HostFat

    I think that it can be a good idea to move ebook communities on the Onion network.
    It’s slow, but it’s enough for sharing ebooks :)

    • http://theupwind.blogspot.com HostFat

      Is there someone with the source code of Library.nu ?
      Which is a good CMS for an ebook library ? Do you have any suggestions?

      • Seanscon

        yes, i am trying to find people interested in building an alternative to Library.nu.. let us talk nor over irc #librarynualt

        • Sempronia Gracchae

          I would love to help you, but how do we contact each other? I don’t know how to use IRC, but I will try to learn this weekend. I was involved with library.nu for nearly five years, back when it was Gigapedia, but I’m not a geek at all–just an old academic, lecturer, and librarian. Cheers, Sempronia

        • adeeb

          I like your idea…. I would love to help, if possible please

        • Marc

          hi devastated by the LNU news but saw your chat any way that i can contribute

        • Free-Science

          what server?
          regards

        • Harry

          I’d be glad to help any way I can.

        • Free-Knowledge

          @ Seanscon

          uploading is no problem i got tons of books. Just need a secure platform to upload ‘em all

        • Danielsarah68

          if you resolve this problem, please contact me..at danielsarah68@yahoo.com , cause really, i needs medical books.thanks.

      • Jim_Dimis

        I know how to make sites anonymous, where can we meet?

    • Kr0nZ

      tor already has a library
      https://am4wuhz3zifexz5u.tor2web.org — The Tor Library

      tho im not sure how you would go about uploading to it, or if its even possible

      • A-none-anon

        nice link, but kinda useless for most without uploading

        something I found interesting on that link was under ‘So-called-terrorist-documents’ then it listed one document… THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

        • Ugly American

          No surprise there. To the globalists who run the slave nation of America, there is no greater “terrorist threat” than the US Constitution. They’ve been shredding it with the “patriot” act at every opportunity.

          Welcome to the PSA – Policed States of America.

      • http://profiles.google.com/cybervigilante Jim Mooney

        Most of the computer books are 2003 to 2006 – a computer book that old isn’t much use.

    • 3c905b-tx

      Or I2P. 

  • Shahram

    there is nothing left to do for me on internet….

    • Norqueeta Huffmire

      sorry u feel this way, try using a search engine for p2p networks or file sharing and you will see that there is enough for you. I have downloaded books with freenet/frost.

      • http://profiles.google.com/cybervigilante Jim Mooney

        The big file sharing nets are now being monitored and you can get a nice “we’re cutting you off” letter from your internet provider.

    • Jenna Brennan

      There is always IRC.

      • Santosarminio

        Hello Jenna: Please me an invite for biteme.org.? My e-mail is: santosarminio@gmail.com
        SOS!

        • Pngfree

          Can you please sent me an invitation for biteme.org? My email pngfree@yahoo.gr . I was a member of gigapedia.org later library.nu

  • Anon

    library.nu will be sorely missed. I would love to hear about any attempts at recovering from this loss.

    • Physicist

      library.nu is of high importance for students and researchers who need rapid access to books specially in countries which the publishers do not sell and offer their books directly.

      • asd

        I agree, we must make a new platform and new protocols for safe and anonymous ebook transfer. I don’t realy care about music and movies but I get very angry about shearing ebooks.

        • Djpardon

          I agreee.
          We must make a new platform fo the books only.

        • asd

          I was thinking something like an encrypted transfer, files immersed in junk datas (like a book has 3mb but you must download something between 5-10 mb so the ones how try to watch what you are transferring to get a lot of junk to deal with), the possibility to by synchronized with other users (I have a folder in witch I ad a book and in that moment everyone how is synchronized to that folder to download the e-book automatically), torrent transfer protocol inheritance, tunnelling capabilities for those who have proxies, maybe onion platform inheritance with something like sharing x% from your bandwidth for other so they can download anonymously, communities with maximum 20 000 user but with bridge connections between them (lets say 10% of the user to be linked to other cells) for searching and etc….
          What would you say, is someone willing to make something like this with me? I know that this is a titanic job and a little paranoic but we are the NET an knowledge is our till we are can buy it.

  • Anon

    So now you want to pull the money from book writing and publishing? Are they also evil in your eyes like the recording industry?

    Share what you have the right to share or suffer the consequences. I hope they are sued to oblivion. $11 million on other people’s writing work is as lowlife as it gets.

    • puddipuddi

      How about charging poor college students $200 per book, and make a useless update of the book every semester so your expensive books become un-sellable. They have a monopoly in college books, and they greedily exploit the students.

      I don’t agree with this textbook monopoly, but I also don’t agree with making a ton of money from shareing. Enough money to survive si ok maybe, but not millions.

      • djnforce9

        I do agree about textbooks which is why some people are setting up a sharing site for textbooks where you can submit whatever you happen to own (although yearly updates makes this difficult unless someone manages to scan and post one almost right away).

        However, I never found “regular” authors to be that way. Nope, I don’t think the publishing industry is nearly as bad as the music and movie but file-sharing will cover all always forms of media and information including books. It’s certainly very useful if a title goes out of print and is no longer sold anywhere. Sharing ensures it can still be found and enjoyed by all long after it’s retired from shelves.

        It also allows independent authors to make their works known too.

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          Oh, guess again. At one time (and still, some of them) the book publishers were trying to shut down public libraries as ‘infringement factories’. Thankfully the Supreme Court realized the substantial non-infringing usages of libraries and shut that down (mostly) a few decades ago.

        • harry krishna

          b&n started with college bookstores. that’s where the $ came from to establish their current monopoly

    • Gpythomas

      Do you seriously think that academics get any significant money for the books they write and that are sold hundreds of dollars by companies such as Springer? Academic publishing is a theft, the only ones who benefit from it are the publishers, not the authors, and the only reason why academics still publish their works through these companies is for the associated prestige. Meanwhile, scores of universities, students and faculty from third world countries can’t have access to the whole range of academic publications because their libraries don’t have the fund to buy the books or purchase online access to the collections of these publishers, and the books are way too expensive for individuals to buy. Moron.

      • Ohmydearohmygod

        You are right about third world countries and although I do not know whether you still agree that China is still a third world country, most Chinese universities do not have so many English books in their libraries. And it is impossible for university teachers like me, who earns so little to buy highly priced English books regularly; even the kindle version is something we cannot afford given our petty earnings from our teaching jobs. I earn a tenth of the income of the average US university teacher. I am now staying in the USA for my visitor program and I have found that prices for many goods in American stores are lower than or roughly the same as the prices for the same goods in China. Besides, property prices in Chinese cities are sure much higher than in America. I would like to pay for English books, but why do the publishers set such high prices for their publications?

        • sonia useinova

          I teach at a leading university in Russia, I barely survive on my salary and with an average price of a monograph in my field of studies being well over $50 there’s no question of buying anything. No foreign scientific literature finds its way in our library, so library.nu was one of the few ways I could find of reading books I have to. now it’s gone and it’s really a blow.
          As for royalties, I happen to know from a colleague, world-famous scientist, that Brill (the most important publishing house specializing in oriental studies) had paid him a staggering $300 for publishing a monograph they sell at $98 a copy. The idea is you should be proud they consent to publish your stuff.
          So it’s down to wanting to learn but not being able to afford the books. cheers to the publishers!

        • Anon

          If you think China is a 3rd world country, it is only because of idiotic lecturers such as yourself. Those ‘English books are highly priced (overpriced) everywhere you misbegotten third world half-wit. Invoking a deity isn’t going to help a religious twit such as yourself. If I knew I was unknowingly aiding vermin like you seeing as how I was a regular contributor at gigapedia, then library.nu, I’d have stopped uploading books a long time ago. Please stay in the US and rot and die.

      • anon

        Amen. A few of my profs wrote books, and when asked about how their royalties per book sale, they just laugh… and laugh… and laugh… and then give you that blank serious face…. before walking out to their rusted out 1992 Civic and sputtering away.

      • Chuck

        Are you an idiot? If what you say is true, why would a professor need to release a new version EVERY SEMESTER? They wouldn’t, if they weren’t making money off of it. Stop drinking the cool-aid and think for yourself for a change.

        • terry ringelberg

          Do you actually believe that the AUTHOR writes the “extra” 6 pages the publishers use as an “excuse” for a “New Edition” -if you do, you are as gullible as your post is thoughtless

        • Chomsky

          I do not know about others, but I release new versions when enough errors in the previous ones have been found or if there has been recent developments in the field worth mentioning.

          There are exceptions, of course, but we are generally no better off financially than many students. I could not care less if a student of mine chooses to share my work: ultimately, it will lead to my students achieving better results in my classes, and that will reflect well on me. That is essentially why I bother to write books in the first place.

      • Crap

        true, these publications are bloody expensive. costs up to millions per yr to subscribed

      • Djupardon

        Authors are not payed for their work.
        Publishers get the cream.
        Knowledge must be free.

        • elmo

          +1

    • Anonymous

      it’s a library
      since when was that considered evil?

      it doesn’t have an artificial scarcity like physical libraries have, so it is an improvement

      the $11 millions just show that there is a willingness to pay, if the offer is good enough to be paid for.

      • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

        Question: do you REALLY believe what the copyright industry claims?

        They can’t prove their losses.

        • Ugly American

          “They can’t prove their losses.”

          Exactly, and there’s a good reason for it – there aren’t any. Fact.

    • An0n3mus

      You seem to be sadly out of touch with reality. An author usually receives $1 per book sold. The retailer receives up to 10% of the publisher’s suggested price or the sales price per copy and the rest goes to the publishing house (shipping is paid by retailer). Many of the ebooks out out of print or very difficult to find outside of thrift shops, used book shops or rare book shops. I for one searched 1 1/2 years for a particular book only to discover after I found it online it was an ‘abridged’ version-not what I was looking for.
      That said, the so-called ‘lowlife’ is really the publishing houses – criticize them for their actions…not the one who really wants a book they can’t find elsewhere.

      • Gpythomas

        Who’s out of touch with reality? Do you not know that academic publishing relies on free work from academics, who do most of the reviewing and editing? These journals and books are peer reviewed, which is why academics publish in them in the first place. This editing and reviewing work is mostly unpaid. As for the royalties, say an author gets a 10% on the retail price of each book, how much do you think she will get from the sales? We’re not talking Harry Potter here, so let’s say 500 copies are sold, which is not bad for a highly specialized book, and let’s say each copy sells for 75 dollars, that’s $3,750. Now, consider that the book is the result of several years of research, and you’ll understand what I mean by work for free. It’s not about the money, it’s about the quality of the peer-review, hence the academic prestige.

    • Jdasilva24

      “$11 million on other people’s writing work is as lowlife as it gets.” Well, I’m a researcher in mathematics, and together with my colleagues from all other branches of science I publish my research without getting a penny for the publication, while the journals that publish it are making millions! These publishing houses are today, for the most part (Springer, Elsevier, etc.) owned by investment companies, so profitable that they are. THIS is as lowlife as it gets. Hours ago I cancelled I huge buying for my University library, of books I got to know … from Library.nu!!! I’ll only buy now those that interest me and that appear on the (very few and poorly made) flyers that those companies send me once in a while.

    • Anonymous

      under your logic, libraries would be illegal criminal outfits.

      • Angry Voter

        Thomas Jefferson and other founders of the US set up public libraries and put freedom of the press in the Bill of Rights. Have you ever looked at Thomas Jefferson’s patents? He designed equipment to help copy maps. He copied and distributed music. Free exchange of information was enforced by word and deed by the founders of the US.

        The current anti-sharing system was created by the same would be monopoly parasites who sleezed in fractional banking and the fiat paper money system. The violent anti-sharing parasites are a threat to civilization. They are the type of dunces that would have locked up the last copy of Euclid’s Elements and not let anyone read it.

        Anti-sharing monopoly parasites are a threat to civilization.

        Shun them. Shun their businesses. Shun their families.

    • ndmushroom

      Silly me, I thought the first and foremost thing to share was knowledge…

    • X_lady_20

      Anon, not everything is about money…we are talking about knowledge here, about culture, civilisation, progress… maybe this is the only way for a poor student from India or eastern europe to access knowledge and pursue his passion wich could make him a valuable scientist one day and if not, at least a better human being…so it’s not about the 11 millions they made but about the millions of people who benefited from it and improved the human race by reading them….

    • zytronbloodworthy

      Still eating TV dinners off your lap ANON?
      Burning the Library of Alexandria, again
      “Instead of going after the library.nu guys, the publishers’ coalition should have hired them, and monetized the site as a subscription service for e-books, like iTunes for music. Shortsighted publishers, locked into yesterday’s world-view, a discipline-and-punish approach, and an eagerness for excessive profit.” – cikitsa.blogspot.com.au

  • Zeronetworth

    ebooks are literally impossible to acquire legally, and still very hard to get through illegal channels unless its that new book from the twilight series

    I guess they are still hoping this whole internet thing (and computer, ebook readers…) will blow over so that they can continue killing trees. Ugh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

    Id love to know where they dreamed up the $11m revenue figure from

    • Noah C.

      Probably a subpoena for information on this that came along with the injunction.

    • Brainboy

      They pulled that number out of their ass, lnu never charged for a thing…

      • Anon

        Add Revenue

        • eis

          it didnt have ads

    • Anonymous

      page views, but indeed totally inaccurate (updated the article)

  • Anon

    does anyone know an alternate site for e-publications?

    • Ender Wiggin

      demonoid

      • Anootti

        but they are not allowing to register they are asking for invitation code :(

        • Jenna Brennan

          go to torrent-invites.com for invites.

          BTW Hi Ender!

    • http://twitter.com/BjornHudson Bjorn Hudson

      librarypirate.me

    • Anonymous

      ebookee.org

      • Mohamezz

        most of the links suks i don’t advise you to use it

    • Thomas K

      Book Finder (en.bookfi.org) has most of the functionality of library.nu. Might also check out Scribd, AvaxHome, Library Genesis, 4shared, Gigabook, and Bibliotik.

      • flashking

        Hello

        could you give the link of “library genesis” you mentioned

        thanks

      • think

        does anyone have a login / password for bibliotik?

        • Sicitur

          It’s invite-only web-site. You should go on torrent-invite, get registered there and ask for an invite.

  • Agtrier

    How long until we can d/l the whole library as torrent?

    • Anonymous

      You can do that already. Go to the Pirate Bay, click Browse Torrents, then find the Ebook category under Other. Then click the “size” column header to show the largest collections. You will find library size collections.

      • 409850934

        library-sized collections of rubbish.

        best search for PHC for up-to-date library.nu collections.

        • Dino

          Sorry, what’s PHC?

        • 3c905b-tx

          After some checking I think you mean search on torrent index sites for “PHC”?

          Cheers.

  • http://profiles.google.com/pianogamer Knut Harald

    Guess I’ll have to hit the library again…

    • Latoya

      library = emule p2p, sharing is caring

  • Goffman

    lnu will never be forgotten. Thx smiley.

  • http://twitter.com/SodiumWage Dan Harlow

    The thing that is unique about this is that library.nu offered access to books that were nearly inaccessible through any other means (such as out of print) or were copies of scholarly works that cost hundreds of dollars to purchase through legal avenues.

    In a way this is like losing the Library of Alexandria all over again because many of these works will once again be seen by only a handful of people who either have fortunate access to them or the money to buy them.

    Perhaps if the book industry decided to make these books (and I’m only talking about scholarly works here in this entire comment) available in a reasonable manner and instead of spending millions of dollars on lawyers just dropped the price of these books so that more people could actually buy them, I’d see that as being reasonable. However, being able to access scholarly information is now, once again, severely limited. This not only hurts people attempting to do research, but also the authors themselves who will never sell more than a handful of their books.

    In fact, many academics used library.nu as well. This was not just a book sharing site for people wanting the latest King novel, but a place where historians and mathematicians could easily gain access to important findings and research (both new, obscure and old) without having to jump through hoops, cut red-tape or spend a ton of their own money to access.

    That’s why this, above all the recent file sharing losses, is the one that hurts the most. Great research will now linger in a moldy corner of some publishers archive with a $100 price tag attached to it. The information inside will hardly be seen which hurts the author and the end consumer.

    Publishers need to start granting access to these works so that most people can reasonably access them and so that they can still afford to do business. People will pay a fair price for good information, but as things stand now the sharing will probably continue.

    • Ian

      I think you are correct. I am an academic and used in for my work. The economy and the natural and social sciences will benefit much more from these books if they are made available to whoever needs them.

    • Sense

      I totally agree with your point.

      But we already know its all about money for the publisher. No real money gain for the writer. They will not start granting access for free. Its the way that some people created the economy like we have now. This is all about offer and demand. When they shut down a sharing site like this, they create scarcity and then they can sell it at higher price. The consumer loose because he must pay more, and the writer have not more cash than the poor deal he made with the publisher.

      If you see that, this is not just the music, movie, energy, car, etc. Its the entire economy that is flawed. Its always offer and demand that create the price way pay now.

      At least, we need to correct the economy to the core, then big company will start to change their thinking and will follow a good sharing culture.

      • 3c905b-tx

        that is capitalism for you.

    • anon

      You know the worst part? Most of this research that will be locked away in a publisher’s archive was funded by the taxpayers’ money. The public pays for it, but the public isn’t allowed free access to it.

    • Ernst

      Well put. As a doctoral candidate struggling to pay rent, I depended heavily on library.nu to advance my research. And I’m in the well-to-do first world with relatively easy access to materials.

      The real tragedy is that the greatest beneficiaries of library.nu were those in developing nations – entire university curricula were built around texts accessible through library.nu. Imagine trying to study particle physics in an area of the world where an up-to-date textbook costs the equivalent of an entire month’s salary…

    • Anonymous

      Scholars in non-US/Europe have been dealt a crushing blow. Many countries don’t have good libraries and publishers simply don’t make these books easily available. The only way to get some of the books are by paying astronomical prices and waiting for weeks. All in all, it is a bad development given that there is no alternative for people like us.

    • http://www.techfruit.com Tim [techfruit]

      Whilst eBook piracy may be an issue for the publishing industry, they are really facing a crisis of identity as these huge corporations born out of the explosion of literacy and science which have turned to aiming singly for profits are now being challenged.

      Academics are boycotting certain publishers and the internet as a whole has never respected exclusive access or exorbitant prices. Things are about to change.
      http://www.techfruit.com/2012/02/16/ebook-lending-and-pirate-libraries/

    • Barwa

      hi.
      my mail is barwa@inbox.com
      i have a vast collection of ebooks now. I collect them from 2008. I will be happy as hell when you invinted me on the new site PLEASE

      M99

    • http://profiles.google.com/cybervigilante Jim Mooney

      The well-bribed CorpaGovernment is moving to quash the Internet, using bribed bums like Chris Dodd. ISPs have now agreed to “police” the net so it’s time for a free, distributed net to get out from under the thumb of the major ISPs. If they had their way there would have been no social media outcry against using “pink slime” in school lunches, for instance. They HATE the fact that the people can find out the truth, organize, and speak out. They want us all Back in the Box. We all know Congress and the President (either party) are wholly owned subsidiaries of businesses like Goldman-Sachs, and your vote is now a joke, so the net is the only place you can be heard.

      Are there any replacements for library.nu, that can’t be harassed?

  • Beelzebub

    “high quality e-books”? I’ll believe it when I see it. Most of the commercially available ebooks I’ve come across have been poorly typeset, full of scannos, with occasional use of characters that aren’t allowed by the format spec., etc. Ironically, it’s the free ebooks (Gutenberg et al. and pirated titles where the pirate has done some tidying up to make the ebook usable) that show high quality in my experience. You get what you pay for my arse.

    • http://profiles.google.com/artfulldragon TL Dragon

      This. 1000 times this. They pump out half assed garbage then get pissed off when people don’t want to pay for the shit.

      I have paid full price for more than one book and had reader issues and typo’s and just complete half ass typesetting and total lack of give a shit.

    • No

      “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Then clearly you weren’t on library.nu.

      Since I don’t know where else to say it, thanks smiley & co. You had a big hand in making my continuing education possible, and I’ll be forever grateful.

      • Phewdbak

        Yeah, a big shout out should go to smiley. I even thanked him and co. in the acknowledgements of my PhD thesis. :) It seems to be an enormous loss right now, but I believe that sharing content over the internet is an extremely resilient self-organizing system. We won’t have to wait long till something comes up to substitute library.nu.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000617943487 Máté Bikfalvi

    Lower textbook prices twats! Also databases are expensive too. If your institution doesn’t pay for access you’re gonna waste more money on articles then what you earn.

    On that note; Aaron Swartz FTW!

    • Sense

      .torrent on the popular books
      database for the rare books

  • Anonymous

    the entertainment industries (music and movie) have really started something, haven’t they. the next industry that uses the same ridiculous claims is going to be? the next industry that starts bribing politicians to bring in new laws is going to be? best thing will be to let everyone have everything copyrighted. that way no one will be able to do anything (for fear of being busted) and there will be no progress of any sort ever again. what a future we have in store for us!

  • astroboi

    IT’s interesting that people from Wiley & Sons were involved in this. 20 or so years ago, Wiley had a big operation whereby anyone who got their name on the mailing list of a tech journal received a stack of prepaid postcards every month which they could send in for “try-before-buy” technical books. If you liked the book you paid and if not you returned the book. Well it didn’t take long to realise that these were the remainders of book runs, books that were about to see a new edition printed or just poorly written text books. It also didn’t take long to realise you could just keep the book, throw away the bill and continue to receive the cards. It appeared to be a massive tax-loss operation similar to the phony “RecordClubs” that operated at that time. So Wiley supported a free book distribution system and (perhaps) made money by generating phony losses to use for tax purposes. Wiley has published some excellent material but they have put out a monumental amount of literary rubbish. Yet here they are, terrorizing individuals for sharing.

  • Alyssa Blindy

    It can be considered unfortunate that these sites have shut down. However, I believe that the publishing industry is considerably more adapting than the music and movie industry. This is because people can pick up books at a library, and read them from there. I wonder how much book piracy may drop if you could use libraries digitally, through logging into your library with your computers and mobile devices. It is an interesting thing to think about.

    • Camilo

      The question is, when would you buy a book, then? No more e-book sales? (You know, if you are reading it online, you don’t really need an e-book, and you could generate one if not avaliable as a PDF.) Only paper book sales? (which I’m really uninterested in if it’s a technical book, nothing beats searching textually).

      I sincerely believe a huge open library should be government-funded and authors should be paid by popularity of their work, or some similar system. Don’t tell me the govt. doesn’t have money for that, at least USA does. They just need to stop spending tax money on making war everywhere.

      • Alyssa Blindy

        Oh that idea would be ideal and awesome. I would love a huge nationally/globally? funded library. The US has just got to get their debt under control first.

  • noob

    does anyone know of any other ebook sites??? I know that librarypirate.me and freebookspot.es still work… would like to hear of more places…

    • Redeemer

      wowebook.mobi seems ok

    • Jenna Brennan

      bitme.org

      • Guest

        PLEASE INVITE ME mondocane2009@bol.com.br

      • mcomsa

        Me too, please,
        mcomsa@yahoo.com

        Thank you!

      • http://www.facebook.com/rheinful Rheinful Lee

        Please invite me…
        my email defhein@yahoo.com

        Thank you

      • LNU_appreciator

        Pls invite me

        gg7@hushmail.com

      • Nikkeidown

        I could share some maths and physics books. Please send me an invite nikkeidown # yahoo.com

      • Picturapoesis2010

        Hey Jenna, is it still possible to get an invite to bitme.org from you. I’ll really appreciate it, thank you very much in advance my email is: picturapoesis2010@gmail.com

    • Mezeshayainternet

      please invite me too. mezeshayainternet@gmail.com

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YFY2EF75XVYRLAO6XXOYCT5III Tron

      Freebookspot is a good site. if you come to know any other please notify me at
      transformer3x@yahoo.com

      thx

  • Hermione

    Crying rn, you will be sorely missed

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  • Some_Dude

    What’s an E-Book?

  • Anon

    How does the publishers know the revenue those sites were generating? Where do they get $11 million from? Over what time period? o_O

    • Anonymous

      just like all figures they cite it comes straight out of their ass

  • Noname

    I wanna see the fancy cars and pretty girls they bought with $11 million.

    • Mick

      Revenue does not equal Profit

  • Anon

    “They claimed that both sites were operating an unauthorized “internet library” ” ummm so what? libraries dont pay royalties, under fair use, so why should an internet library? someone paid for the book once, same as a brick and motar library

  • Devrandom

    my respect and everlasting admitation for the administrators lnu! /bow

    they made 11M, so what? … Most of the students and scholars who benefited from their work could never have payed for the books and they never payed lnu 1 cent.

    RIP lnu

  • Anon

    The only way for the modern community to grow very fast, and even let many people smarter, loving more and more books and not being dependant of far libraries, is through sharing. Sharing is really caring in this case. When you can’t study because you see your parents at war, in a place and vicinity that don’t help you anyway, these sites of book sharing have a very positive consequences (and can even save this person from, say, abandoning school). Be or not to be. But, of course, its up to the same person him/herself to buy the book that helped them (better if in its author page directly). Its a way to say to the author: ‘thank you very very much’.

  • Kevin-Mitnick

    Three decades past, an Engineering University in Upstate NY was the first to require all freshman purchase a computer (8088 processor, no HD, 192K ram, 5.25” LD floppies – $2000/students, $4000/market). The NY-Times criticized the college and many funny cartoons were published showing students trying to plug their computers into a tree (ie sit under a tree and read a [paper] book, but never a “klunky” computer). It was a big deal at the time.

    Flash Forward 30-years to today. IPAD2. Kindle. And sitting under a tree reading an “e-book” is NO DIFFERENT than reading a paper version. BTW, we would often “share” paper books all the time back then. One [paper] book read and passed along many many times.

    Yet I never read an “e-book” until last week.

    Ghost in the Wires (by Kevin Mitnick)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:85164acfeade06ccefb0aa96c955e74ff818b31a&dn=Ghost+in+the+Wires&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

    Good Read.
    FREE KEVIN. KEVIN FREE.

  • http://lucretiusgr.blogspot.com/ Lucretius

    I once donated 20 Euro. It helped me find many out-of-print and rare books that were necessary for my dissertation.

  • Theflood

    This is sad. I’m in Pakistan and am truly at a loss for words. how will I have access to …………………………..FUCK

    • Sense

      VPN?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YFY2EF75XVYRLAO6XXOYCT5III Tron

      if you know any other similar sites please do tell. thanks.

  • Yan

    I guess that we poor folks from developing countries can forget about educating ourselves now.

  • Heller Truman J

    fuck

  • http://twitter.com/isihija sale

    Greed is what runs the world today. Greed is also what it will destroy it.

  • green

    And one little thing more.
    What about the trees?

  • Pierreandersonpetersen

    how did they manage to track down the owners of the sites?

    • Bla

      Someone had to pay the domain hosting bill…

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  • Javier

    This is a real blow. I’m a philosopher in Latin America doing research on my own dime. Library.nu was the only way I could get books that I was not able to get even if I had the money to pay for them. I think the site will emerge in another version in some time. This kind of manouvers (the megauload case and others) are the beginning of a dying industries last charge to save themselves from oblivion. Free knowledge will win the fight in the long term, guess we’ll have to wait. Just hope that I’m alive to see it trough.

    • Gracias

      Thank You Javier.

      You comment is well understood.

      Search for what you need. Use a VPN.
      You will find freedom. But freedom is work.

      If even just a bit or work.
      Great post. Gracias.

    • Ernst

      try this alternative. http://free-books.us.to/

    • Korncheto

      Estoy en las mismas que tú, filósofo en lationamérica. Es una lástima lo que ha pasado, me recuerda tanto a la quema de Alejandría; y Sócrates tomando veneno como le han hecho pagar a dotcom los poderosos. Ni modo, si nuestras tesis tendrían un mejor desarrollo, mayor cantidad de bibliografía ahora, nomás nos queda el recuerdo.

      • Anoni

        Comparto el sentimiento de desolación, pero comparar a Socrátes con Schmitz es un insulto. Lee un poco sobre las andanzas de ese criminal personaje. Es un genio del marketing que ha sabido sacar mucho provecho de la situación.

  • Bla

    LNU didn’t host any books. How can they be liable for anything? They are no more ( or less ) guilty than Google or Microsoft ( bing )

  • Uwontwinthisfight

    surprised they haven’t tried to legislate public libraries into oblivion yet.. or did they try that too in the past?

    • Jenna Brennan

      They did try that, about 30 years ago. The Supreme Court shut it down.

  • Guest456

    I leached books from LNU and Gigapedia for a few years. It was hard work with the captcha’s, very hard work, every day I spent a few hours. My collection is history and literature, primary source and reference, about 30,000 amazing books by the best authors in history. I was in the process of collecting every book on LNU by every author listed in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon, but only got about 25% before this happened. I am sad that the Western Canon is now locked up again. I would like to share these books but only in a place that is safe and with other people who will share in return.

    • Anonymous

      I was ALSO in the process of downloading Bloom’s Canon. Now I’ll never make it past Milton :(.

      • Guest456

        Funny, I made it as far as Francis Bacon and the Utopian books. Seems appropriate.

    • Richai

      let us know your e-mail

      • Guest456

        I hope that is you Smiley if so auto43711958@hushmail.com

      • acdropbox

        @Richai: please also include me ;-)
        acdropbox (at sign here) gmail.com

        • Nietzsche1901

          @Richai Have a ton of academic political theory. gmail me at nietzsche1901

      • lixissimo

        Hi! Id’ appreciate an invite too! Many thanks!
        lixissimo (at sign here) gmail.com

      • ebook

        Please include me too
        ebookebookebookebook@gmail.com

      • Orangbaik2012

        Hi, could you invite me as well … really need books for my study … thank you so much for the thought and for sharing – email address – orangbaik2012@gmail.com – By the way, how would I know I am able to access this site. Thanks

      • Sicitur

        May I join too? ty-derevo @ yandex.ua
        thanks a lot in advance!

      • float

        I have about 1200 books – philos and theory. Could share? Not much, but something. floaterpop at gmail.com

      • Zycdm

        zycdm@21cn.com

        Thanks a lot

      • someone

        Well, got some books to share too. westeastify atttt gmail dottt com

      • some one

        auto73688744 [at] hush.com

      • Orangbaik2012

        Hi Richai, thank for the invite (I think I am in) – not sure if it was you who invited me or it was a mail to confirm my registration. Still lost and still browsing. How do I use the IRC or download any books? Could you invite me for demonoid as the registration is closed? Thank you. Any answers are appreciated. My email: orangbaik2012@gmail.com

      • Tkaouk

        I have a ton of books; could you send an email invite to tkaouk@umd.edu?

      • Vumrrain

        Hi,
        would you invite me too?
        My email address is vumrrain (AT) gmail.com
        Thanks in advance

      • Alextheolog

        please, invite me too
        alextheolog at gmail point com

      • Olev88

        Please take me in =3
        olev88 [at] yahoo.com

      • repost

        Just realized I replied to the wrong individual; If you could invite me at e2murmur@hotmail.com I would be happy to contribute what I can; my records aren’t extensive, but the should grow as I continue through my college career

      • Zhidayat

        hai ricai, could you invite me as well zhidayat at gmail dot com? thank you in advance

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WN6QMTSJJVTCXIKSYUJFUMPSM John Rhodes

        Bro…please invite me… rawvix@yahoo.com

      • Mezeshayainternet
      • http://www.facebook.com/rheinful Rheinful Lee

        @Richai:
        Please invite me to bime.org…
        my email defhein@yahoo.com

        Thank you

      • hrmlnm

        Hi I have some ebooks on Arts,communication an d culture.
        May I join too?
        hrmlnm@gmail.com
        Thanks

      • User 2008

        @Richai:
        Please invite me..
        my email user.2008@qq.com

        Thank you!

    • Android

      Demonoid or The Pirate Bay is the place you are looking for

    • Jenna Brennan

      Bitme.org is where you need to be. If you need an invite, go to http://www.torrent-invites.com

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WN6QMTSJJVTCXIKSYUJFUMPSM John Rhodes

        Can you please invite me? rawvix@yahoo.com

    • Brana85

      May I join? I have downloaded and shared many archaeology and anthropology books from Gigapedia. Brana85@yahoo.com

    • Carter11tom

      Please send me a link too: carter11tom@gmail.com

    • gigapedia4years

      I don’t have much to share at the moment, but as I start to collect a mass of math/science related textbooks that I can’t find I guess I could be of some use; please e-mail me at e2murmur@hotmail.com. One of them is a $250 wiley book that after this I’m prett sure can use some sharing…

  • Guest

    fuck i always forget the name of the sites till they tell me their shut down

  • Shd

    It seems US is shitting the internet.
    what we can do?

    • Anonymous

      shit on them?

    • Jenna Brennan

      build a new Internet?

      • Bla

        its called freenet.

  • guest

    You buy a product from someone. You use it in a way the author did not intend- he or she has the right to sue you and get compensated. I remind you- you bought it- its yours to use however you want. Oh, except this because its the exception so we can [s]rob[/s]make more money off the consumers. May I troll you now or should I troll you later?

  • Anonymous

    Although I sensed that the golden age of Internet freedom may be coming to an end, I am surprised at my own sense of loss. I love books. I spend most of my disposable income on books but that only goes so far. Shutting down Gigapedia/Library.nu will not make me buy more books. It will make me read less.

    Studying English Literature in a Third World country meant that Gigapedia/Library.nu was often my only source of books. Books that I needed to read to be a better student. Books that I wanted to read to be a better person. Not everyone has access to a public library or well stocked bookstores.

    The coalition of publishers who brought this injunction against Gigapedia/Library.nu have proved that they do not care about anything other than profit. Maybe we can’t bring Gigapedia/Library.nu back, but we can let the publishers know that their greed is unacceptable, I plan to find the entire list of publishers who brought the injunction and I vow to never buy a new book by those publishers: only secondhand.

  • Eudaimoniaviking

    shit.i had a premonition.knew this was coming. so made hay when the sun was shining.

  • Free Interweb

    “We will not tolerate free-loaders who make unearned profits by depriving authors and publishers of their due compensation. This is an important step towards more transparent, honest, and fair trade of digital content on the Internet,” he added.

    publishers free loading off authors by paying then almost nothing and then blaming sites like these
    the irony…..
    well atleast they got the part where this site deprives publishers right >_>

  • Skut

    Well, I have about six thousand philosophy/art/music/cinema books from gigapedia – more than I could ever read, but I sort of suspected they would be targeted. So now I’m going to make a torrent for the first time in my life, its the only appropriate response I can think of.
    I do believe authors should be paid, maybe a flat internet access tax, maybe some other way that we haven’t come up with. What I am certain of is that the future will allow unrestricted access to creative output. I don’t pirate music videos or music, because Youtube have it covered. It’s time publishers stood up to the plate and took responsibility, and created a platform at least as compelling as library.nu. And it is a responsibility.
    It is not the same as the sacking of Alexandria – the books will still exist – but it sure feels like it.

    • Tsameemservers

      where is the torrent?>

      • Maxkool

        ^ this

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  • Tsameemservers

    Anybody can upload Engineering/aersopace Ebooks from the library.nu even Torrent?

  • Bob

    I used library.nu all the time and still spent over $1000 on books last year. The idea that sites like library.nu were hurting publishers revenue is total BS. Hope there’s a special place in hell for these lawyers.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    THIS IS IT !!!! MY LIFE WILL BE DEDICATED TO SHARE !!!!!!!

    • Laro

      The problem is to have a site where we can share those books. I did contribute with a few books to gigapedia, although with regret in my hearth I must say I could have done more… let’s hope for the revival of such great site, and yes, sharing is the way to close the gap, at least let’s try.

  • Ruslankhadaenev

    Let’s all remember a saying of Smiley, and keep our heart up:
    “When Smiley closes a door, he opens a window”

    • Fangorn

      I hope so.. L.nu will be sorely missed, though.

  • GOD

    Look everyone, this is the Internet – WE are the Internet – it is NOT the end of the world. Do your research, on the Internet you will find an alternative – someones, somewheres, amongst the billions of us will conquer regardless of what they try to throw at us. Think BIG and do your research and you will find the library. Watch ‘Hackers’ the movie for inspiration. The internet will always be 20+ steps ahead – we have found a way to work together, to collaborate together, we are that of social beings – we are not just one entity, we are a GLOBAL ENTITY… the Internet will always find a way. This is just a one hill ant down. The Internet always rebuilds and builds better, smarter, faster.

    • Ruslankhadaenev

      I totally agree. So let’s not be down. Instead, we must be looking every day for new solutions, new challenges. In the end, the Internet is our creation.

      • Anonymous

        lets do this ! maybe a great site like this one is cooking or already out there but I’d really like to contact some developers, lnu really made a difference in my education, I’ll always be greatful.

        …to coding and sharing it is

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  • Tsameemservers

    I’m fastly trying to collect as much as I can and downloading from the alternatives

    But the tragedy part is I’m worried to go sleap and wake up find all sites DOWN :(

    I delayed downloading from library.nu and in no time it was totally BYE !

    The publishers MUST Pay the price for what they are doing !

  • EX library.nu USER

    LET’S ALL MEET AT AVAXHOME.ws people !!

  • RIP LU

    A very real disaster for humanity, Library nu gave third world’s doctors and nurses access to the most advanced medical knowledge. That knowledge had until library nu been locked in books overpriced in the $100s for US doctors for whom it was no cost as they could write it off against tax. Library nu freed that falsely priced knowledge to people who could and no doubt have saved thousands of lives. Tragically, that humanitarian “piracy” will now end.

    Books on engineering and physical sciences gave third world entrepreneurs and technologists the opportunity to create–and so aided economic development among the poorest parts of the world. That now is dead.

    MegaUpload, and the others gone dark so far in the pirate take-down tsunami shared only fun. Library nu was different. It could have changed the world to a much better place.

    Library nu admins should be given the Nobel Prize for Peace–they desire it more than most its past laureate.

    • ANON

      Nobels for Fidel Nunez and Irina Ivanova see huffingtonpost (which names the individuals that allegedly set up library nu

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

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      I wouldn’t bet on that. Megaupload had a great number of computer science and computer repair books that are used in college-level computer repair training classes on it.

      In fact, that is the biggest reason why I was and still am angry with the government.

      • ANON

        Megaupload had good stuff but did not the technical and medical textbooks so critical to doctors and others in the third world if they are to save lives and speed up economic development. Library nu admins were motivated by the need to change the world to a better place. They were the Oskar Schindlers of the internet. Kim Dotcom might have done some good but created no copyright Schindlerjuden.

    • MMMAAA

      I can not express my disappointment about this. I could have barely access any of the books thatI have got from library.nu. I can not afford and do not have access to these books in my country. That was my hope to get books which are really unaccessible here.

      • Anonymous

        I agree with you.

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  • Anonymous

    WE STAND BY YOU SMILEY. Just remember that, your fall will not be taken kindly.

  • PRIVACY is priceless to me

    How many times do I have to repeat this?
    If you make money on online filesharing (aka “piracy”) you deserve to go to jail.

    • Anonymous

      servers have to be paid
      as long as it isn’t a ripoff (of the people using it) more power to them

    • Guest

      With your logic servers and coders (the stuff that support a site) get paid with air then, you freeleeching bitch.

    • MMMAAA

      I do not believe any of the numbers. I had a free account and I did not see any reason, except for humanity and financial support for someone to be a paid subscriber.

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  • m j

    Similar to many people that already shared, I am from a fucked up shitty country too, and I used LNU with such relief, just knowing that no matter what kind of knowledge I needed, it would be there, easy to find and easy to get a hold of.
    I finished 4 years of Uni exams in 3 years (after taking a break from studies to work) by getting quality books from LNU and avoiding backwards poor quality shit books published in the 50s that are in my Uni’s library.
    I literally have a lump in my throat now. All that happened last few months, the tv shows, movies, music – I can do without them, I will share with “physical” friends, no biggie. But this… I am doing my PhD now, and I am for the first time in several years worried I will not have quality literature for my thesis. I know there are other e-books sites out there, but I didnt yet find a collection of humanities books as big and diverse as it was on LNU.
    Thank you to the people that kept the site going. And for the publishers… enjoy your “victory” while you can. Things are changing, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. It is just a matter of time.

    • Students R F’d

      Man best of luck on your PhD… Perhaps you would get a doctorate in how to class action those motherf*ckers in each of their own countries.

    • MMMAAA

      I do not believe this!!!! Please start LNU again. I need it in my country.

  • Ravikishore1993

    Man! this cannot happen . Library.nu cannot be shut down . wake up library.nu

  • Derp

    Surely someone made an archive of library.nu and uploaded on TPB.

    • 234324

      phc

      • Sicitur

        it’s not the lnu archive, is it?

    • 3c905b-tx

      search phc on tpb

  • Widano

    Can’t describe how depressed I am. I hope Smiley and all staff members are safe.

    I tried to join avaxhome for now, but apparently you cannot post items unless you’re in the “posters” group…

  • Phewdbak

    Using Library.nu a daily basis and seeing it was still there was like the anticipation of the death of your grandparents. You know it must happen some time, still you hoped it won’t.

  • Rage

    secure, safe, and legitimate use of the Internet

    Fuck that. The internet is the last remaining place of true anarchy, and it’s our job to not let it fall to control freaks like this.

  • Drdeji4u

    I don’t know what to say but Library.nu has been a lifeline to me in my academic pursuits. I am a Pediatrician and currently doing a masters programe, for me and a lot of persons from the third world (Africa, Asia,South America, Middle East) it is a major blow. An unrivalled education/academic resource has just been murdered. For the self righteous put yourself in a situation in which the price of some books when available is the cost of your family upkeep for a month and your University libraries can’t purchase current books or the books are obsolete and yet you want to update your knowledge and improve yourself. Library.nu RIP but like the Phoenix you will rise again. To Smiley (whoever and wherever you are) I salute you U are a true warrior.
    Regards

    • Phewdbak

      Yeah, I am a professor with a PhD. The ‘funny’ thing about LNU and ebook sharing in general is that most users are probably knowledge workers/intellectuals of some kind, who are sharing and using such services for personal development and by that they contribute to the accumulation of collective knowledge: something that benefits communities at both local and global levels. I mean it is not a drug distribution network (clearly bad) and not even for entertainment (like sharing movies or music). I remember when I figured out about Gigapedia by running a Google search on some booktitle and “.pdf”. First I found some site that had maybe only about a dozen books uploaded a day. It was just pure chance that occassionaly I could find something useful for me. Then came Gigapedia and it turned out that it carried way more. I remember when Smiley contributed like 10,000 titles in a single move or so in the Uncategorized section and asked users to start filling up bibliographic info. That was a major leap. From then on, the chance that I could find what I was looking for jumped up to almost 100%. It was great. I never had to run to the library just to find out they do not have a title. I could grab it from the internet and read it in about a minute from when I realized I needed it. It helped me through getting my PhD. I am thankful for this to have existed.

      • MMMAAA

        I should say that your comment was excellent, and I hope someone in right mind would read it. This was my only hope to get the book that I want and I knew I could never get it any where else except LNU. I live in a third world country with extreme net control, and access to knowledge is very difficult.
        Some one coud explain what is that programs for distributing laptops in african countries and then closing a humanity website like LNU.

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  • sriperso

    Firsly, I hope smiley and friends (don’t want to take their names) are safe.

    This is a sledgehammer on creativity.

    Hoping to see the window soon … (those who know, know).

    Thanks to those beautiful minds, admins and all the contributors.
    Long live LNU.

    (a guy from third world who dreams of doing some independent research)

  • Anonymous

    You will live on Smiley, forever as a legend.

  • smith

    How can you close something that offers knowledge?Many unknown publishers were discovered thru’ filesharing sites but it seems like they forgot about it.

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  • Abraham

    A very sad event for humanity, knowledge and for the unfortunate hungry minds.
    I’m certain there is a way to get LBN database backed up in some way and shared on torrent trackers, Newsnets. And I hope smiley and the staff would set this treasure of knowledge free for humanity and history will remember them forever.

    • Kanga

      I doubt that… LNU treated those files as theirs to earn some money. They had the chance to spread the whole collection countless times and didn´t. Greed is a bitch…

      • Phewdbak

        Payment was optional. I could still access the books without paying.

        • Kanga

          that is correct. But, just like dropbox business model, they rely on a small fraction of users/donators. If only 0.1% out of 1Million users donated site still gets A LOT of money. And that when publishers start to bite.

      • Toby

        Nonsense. The links were there for all to grab whatever they wanted, and plenty of people did. Most of academic books on similar sites seem to have originated on lnu. Perhaps the bitterness comes from Smiley not looking kindly on people who took files the second they appeared, posted them elsewhere for financial reward, and claimed lnu “stole” *their* links. As for the amount cited by the lawyers, it’s quite obviously fiction.

  • guest

    If library.nu was illegal, how come it was integrated with amazon.com books page? Didn’t amazon notice it?

  • B6510963

    I wonder how much revenue the publishing industry could make if they made a website like library.nu and allowed customers to get any book in any format at their discretion.

  • Guest

    it seems that ifile.it is deleting ALL pdf files on its servers, or, at least, it has deleted ALL MY (made by me) pdf without explanation!

    TRUE VANDALISM!

    and these pdf files were fully legitimate (some public domain book in pdf downloaded from google and some personal pdf made by me)

    are other ifile users experiencing the same behavior?

    ok, now I know that ifile.it is not a reliable service unworthy to be paid

  • Amcgbb

    How about simply paying for the damn books! Authors do not make a fortune. They deserve to get paid for the work they do. How would you like your boss to say Yeah I know you dod the work but I don’t want to pay you for it.

    • Fantastic

      Thing is the Author makes very little and in the way of a textbook next to nothing and the book itself is overpriced and a broken system. Lets take and example that I saw on a college campus a few years ago. Professor contacts with a publisher to make a reference book for his class using journal sources that he picks certain articles to put in said book and then gets a quote on what it would cost each student to purchase said book. The quote they gave him was 40 and for a upper level course book that is a fair price. But then they turned around and sold the book for 80! Screwing both him the person that had complied the sources for the book and the students that had to buy the thing (which would be useless the next semester since that is a course only taught every other spring) Its not novelist that people are against its the greedy textbook companies that issue new texts every year and make the book they printed the previous year worth less than toilet paper. The System is Broken.

    • foff

      Ever heard of a library jerkoff authors don’t get paid when I check book out of the library. Let those who want to buy buy and those who wan’t borrow download.,

    • 3c905b-tx

      I don’t mind buying if fatcats aren’t taking the bulk of the profit.

  • Phewdbak

    I am by no way an authority on this issue, but I guess the book industry will have to go through a major business model shift. A couple of years ago the buzz was about musicians losing money due to file sharing. Many artists (who did want to make a living on their music) figured out that they should expect revenue from concerts and merchandise rather than from royalties on CD/mp3 sales. Often you hear that they release whole albums for free to fans. Maybe something similar will happen to the book industry. I myself would not be offended by folks freeloading my book. Actually that is a complement. I write a book in the first place because I want to share my ideas and not because I want to make a profit on it. The industry will most probably restructure. My (layman’s) opinion is that we needed publishers because they could finance the large cost of printing books. And that cost (paper, pressing) probably meant the greatest share of the total cost of publishing a book at a larger scale. Most authors could not finance that, so they turned to publishers. Now that it is digital content and the distribution is virtually costless, publishers may not have a major role. Yeah, maybe they sort of acted as a quality filter (editing, reviewing), but maybe that could also be done reliably on a community basis. I mean it is not really the publisher that makes a book good and worthy, but the author itself. I would not care if Stephen Hawking put out his book on his own, I would still be interested. Yeah, you could ask then what would be a financial incentive for those people to author books? Partly, altruism for sure. And the self-organizing community would figure out the rest for sure.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000156074481 TrUe LiAr

    I remembered Smiley Once was talking about “Thinking ov VPN” can somebody plz can explain what was that…? regards

  • freenolidge

    A testimony from yet another user from a fucked up 3rd country …

    Smiley, respect for all your sacrifices and hard work for the people of this planet.

    At the same time I feel sorry now for not contributing more and glad for scanning every piece I got my hands on, because this corporate scams have to end.

    Somehow I expect this kind of behavior from the mob running Hollywood and selling circus fun, but those publisher kind, asking for 30 bucks on someones hard work …..They’re really human slime.

  • Asriel

    I can understand the movie and music industry much more than I do these publishers as their product is totally replaceable by the uploaded content.
    Meanwhile I don’t think that digital textbooks would ever make real competition for the printed version. I have hundreds of medical textbooks from Library.nu, but I’d never dream of reading books with hundreds of A4 pages on my PC, it would kill my eyes (and they can’t be well converted to read on my Kindle). I thought once of printing one but the size coming out was so huge and unpractical.
    I downloaded them just to read passages and compare, before choosing what to buy. If anything, they’ve served to me as an incentive to buy books which normally I’d never buy with my income in my country, but I found a few of them so good I had to have the paper version. I have plenty of friends, who are residents in medicine specialties, plenty have downloaded many textbooks, but I’ll be damned if they’ve read any of them on their PC screen.
    Such a useless shame.

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  • http://vimrc-dissection.blogspot.com/ Dummy00001

    “made available more than 400,000 high-quality e-books”

    I recently bought Kindle and started buying official e-books. And OMG yes, “pirate” copies often are of much higher quality.

    Before, I wouldn’t have even imagined that for a 10€ e-book they could fail to get a decent editor. Some of the cheaper e-book (1-5€) are raw, barely edited OCRs, with mis-OCR-ed names, missing characters(*) or punctuation freak-outs.

    At the same time, the “pirate” libraries have vivid communities which actually take care of the e-books, correct and edit them, so that others do not have to stumble upon the dumb mistakes. And they do it FOR FREE.

    (*) “bank of witches” is one of the most recent memorable errors. hehe. bank of witches. LOL. the story is set in the future, so who knows, there might be witches then, locked or stacked up in the banks. hehe. (Took me some time to figure it out: “bank of switches”)

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  • Fourty_eight_thousand432

    Library.nu is still up. High level accounts and certain donators can still log in.

    • Phewdbak

      And the database is still available? With descriptions and links to the ifile.it files? Is there any discussion going on there about what is going on?

      • Tgr

        Don’t be stupid.
        library site status: “rip lnu”
        This is the end of the story.
        :-(

        • Xmirandolox

          “This is the hour of lead
          Remembered if outlived,
          As freezing persons recollect the snow–
          First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.”

        • Anonymous

          U know, it never has an end

    • Guest456

      What’s the login URL

    • Xmirandolox

      And pigs might fly.

      • Somebody

        youarerightbuteboobsliveforever ;)
        rip lnu

    • Tgr

      Fucking liar.

    • Sadman

      That was only the case a few days ago, and it was depressing. Everything is gone. Just entries, and links to dead ifile.it. There looked like there was a small attempt at moving things to mediafire, but it is a ghost town now. LNU RIP

    • kpf

      clear text bull shit

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  • NikolaSone

    Copyrights my ASS!!! what’s going on is a full-blown knockdown for the scientific progress. And I’m not talking about some new ingenious future, time travel, nanotechnology progress, it’s basic education hitting the floor mostly for the underdeveloped countries.

    And that’s exactly my case! I live in Macedonia (the Balkans), a country where the average salary is somewhere around 200eu, and I’m a student, attending a MA degree in communication sci. still writing my thesis these days, and where I come from the public library is not an option. If I needed to pay for the books I referred in my thesis so far I think I would need to work for it the rest of my life, that’s if I find a job, and it’s not an easy endeavor around here.

    If it wasn’t for library.nu I doubt I would ever learn to read (academic text), and it’s not an exaggeration, trust me! Our libraries are so poor, mostly containing 30year or older editions of books that almost never refer to the field of communication or any other contemporary science. My professors never hide that they use sites like library.nu, avax etc. and share this with students that really like to gain some knowledge in the field. Original textbooks are fiction for most of the subjects in the universities and most of the time they are copy-printed handouts of some god knows how obtained original. If the laws of international treaties like ACTA etc are applied in my country than the whole educational system in my country would have to be declared illegal.

    For a country like Macedonia and the Balkans region generally THIS IS A APOCALYPTIC SCALE DISASTER! I really feel like the dark age is just around the corner these days.

  • ANON

    A big difference here from the usually Hollywood take down is that two of the organizations involved are charities–the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. They gain their charitable status due to their “contribution to the advancement of knowledge, education or religion”, Here it is library,nu run without gain seeking monies (as do normal charities) to cover their costs that is the true charity.

    History will judge Smiley and the LNU admins as good charitable people like Levi Coffin and other organizers of the Underground Railroad–that, of course, was illegal in its day in that “robbed” slave owners of the monetary value of their runaway “slaves”.

    • Toby

      They enjoy the status of charities (immensely useful for tax purposes etc.) due to their association with Oxford and Cambridge universities, which they are technically parts of. O.U.P.’s gratitude to the University for this is pretty much non-existent, as is the idea that they are answerable to it in some non-nominal way. There’s a lot of bad feeling about this at Oxford.

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  • harryellimpio

    We still havn’t learned anything from the past, in those days they just piled the books up in the street and burned them. Today its just the same but without the bonfires.

  • harryellimpio

    Another fact is that the publishers etc. take the cream off the top whilst leaving the author with a few cents.

  • Arkanderr

    These things they are doing is just going to make people mad, and what do mad people do? they create new tech new ways of sharing like emule,dc++ in the past before the filesharing sites, thing is, they sell us what they want charging what they think is fair without worrying about what their customers think, maybe in a few years (hope months) someone is gonna figure out something and then everything is back again, it never ends…

  • kadbudugorjeligradovi

    i have put most of books about gardening and agriculture from library.nu to my blog (as well as many others on different subjects):

    http://kadbudugorjeligradovi.tumblr.com/tagged/gardening

    it appears that some 30000 books form library.nu are still on ifile.it, i just dont know yet good way to search:

    http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=site%3Aifile.it+ebooksclub&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

    and finaly, many of books from there you can find here:

    gen.lib.rus.ec

  • kadbudugorjeligradovi

    well sorry, two days ago when i tried it was still working…..

  • Abraham

    What about MediaFire links? I believe every book has links to multiples host before the lasted suites.
    Also lbn is just a text database so it won’t take that much work to package the whole thing in a small size archive and make it available for everybody. The community can eventually start an effort of re-uploading the dead links in a decentralized and effective way and keep a unique repository.

    • Seanscon

      please join #librarynualt over irc, and lets talk more about it

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  • Novaop

    Too bad the human system doesn’t operate on sharing instead of capitalism.

    • Guest

      That is called Resource Based Economy. Read about The Project Venus (Jacque Fresco).

  • Seanscon

    people we need to give gas. we need to rescue those 300600 books still on ifile.it, and put them somewhere. please come over and let us talk in #librarynualt

    • Guesttt

      On what irc server is #librarynualt?

      • Seanscon

        i am just using webchat.freenode.net

    • foabadli

      As I understand ifile.it has deleted all pdf files. This is the case with my own files that I kept there.

    • Riplnu

      @seanscon which server are you using?

      • Seanscon

        webchat.freenode.net

  • Guest

    Information should be free!

  • NuMbEr4
  • Bose Ojo

    yes

  • Iranhistory

    I have downloaded books for free from ifileit. However, nothing will replace a printed book. The international move to shut down library.nu is an effort against free interchange of information. It is specially at third world countries.

  • http://twitter.com/zra_syd azhra syed

    lnu you will be missed. see you around in another incarnation soon.

  • Thomas m

    Really a sad day. I have downloaded form library.nu as well while at the same time I do own the books I need for my profession. I just recently moved continents and I had to leave all my ‘print’ books behind because they were too heavy. I’m lucky to at least have the digitial copies now I downloaded from library.nu.

    Really funny as well if you check the website of the lawers, http://lausen.com/ looks like from the 90ies while they proclaim to be on the forefront of the digital age – law wise. What a joke.
    Well, maybe the latest addition to the German language, the anglicism ‘shitstorm’ got introduced just in time.

  • Sicitur

    We should compose an open letter addressed to publishing houses. Their princilples of making buisness is out of date.

    We could talk on twitter as well with the hashtag #librarynualt

  • Sicitur

    There are plenty of new ways of making business on-line. If they want to be paid they could invest in borrowing books scheme (like here: http://openlibrary.org/borrow). Or they could make a monthly subscription for a personal ebookreader (5 euros pm would be fare). Or they/we could create a sort of bank, composed of donations, that will pay for copyright. Or they could make ads officially which will cover expenses of publishing houses. There could be other schemes.

    What’s clear is that the way the system of academic publishing is working now does not correspond to people’s ability to pay, to the level of technological development achieved so far, to an emerging understanding of how the labour is measured and paid and what is fare and what is not.

  • anon

    could you please post the IRC server to join #librarynualt ?

  • azimuth

    So many comments…So much sorrow…What is made clear to me…:
    A. lnu was mostly needed by people who wanted academic knowledge and not so much for “freelance” reading.
    B.The only who had problem with lnu were these academic publishing powerhouses who everybody in the academia detest.
    I have two questions:
    1.Is it impossible mirror mirror sites to work?
    2.At the end of the day, lnu has a huge database with ebooks. Release it to the world via torrents and everything else is history. Where is the problem? Just split the packages according to a specific torrent size and the classification(thematic) comes next from anyone interested.

    However because I have been heavily benefited from lnu I regret that I never donated a small amount of money, although I had it in mind to act so.

    And finally one question for anyone who may know…How did someone like the owner of lnu manage to organize the whole thing? I’ve been using lnu only for several months but I think it was on air since 2007 or something. Could someone who has been using it since then describe the growth of the library?

    Greetings from Greece. These gentlemen who shut down lnu (elsevier etc. have not been providing greek universities scientific magazines latest editions for 2 years due to “lack of funding”…

  • yasir ahmad

    If publishers dont want there stuff shared…they better not publish it in the first place…..

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  • kgydkgyd

    This was a major blow to my life. I am also a Master student from a 3rd world country and library.nu provided me a great range of materials I could never buy, and I indeed won’t be able to buy any of them any further. With my 200$ study grant I will be able to buy only 3-4 books in a month, and not even including shipping costs. And no matter what, I was already buying books, and making a list of the ones I already read so I could buy them in future when I had a good salary.

    GOD BLESS YOU SMILEY ANYWAY YOU ARE THE MAN

  • Regular_lnu_member

    400,000 e-books = 400,000 doc in the real life

    1 book (archive.org, gutenberg, Creative Commons, out of print books) = 1 book (pdf, epub, mobi, djvu, chm, different quality) = 1-6 maybe more doc
    1 magazin = 1 doc
    1 scientific article = 1 doc

    400,000 e-books = bullshit

    • Xmirandolox

      True. Partly.
      But even so the place was unique. Its most important assets were probably its immaterial values: the spirit and the efforts that were put together by lots of people from all over the world. A fact scary enough in itself to cause the disapproval of the ‘priviledged’.

  • Grigoreagape

    What about a new platforms and protocols for e-books only. I was thinking something like an encrypted transfer, files immersed in junk datas (like a book has 3mb but you must download something between 5-10 mb so the ones how try to watch what you are transferring to get a lot of junk to deal with), the possibility to by synchronized with other users (I have a folder in witch I ad a book and in that moment everyone how is synchronized to that folder to download the e-book automatically), torrent transfer protocol inheritance, tunnelling capabilities for those who have proxies, maybe onion platform inheritance with something like sharing x% from your bandwidth for other so they can download anonymously, communities with maximum 20 000 user but with bridge connections between them (lets say 10% of the user to be linked to other cells) for searching and etc….
    What would you say, is someone willing to make something like this with me? I know that this is a titanic job and a little paranoic but we are the NET (the poor, the grannies, the students and the cats) an knowledge is our till we are can buy it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003402574669 Elsie Paroubek

    80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
    This is why places like Library.nu are amazing for the world.
    The majority of people using Library.nu was for education.

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  • Seanscon

    irc server details: (how i, a geologist, do it)

    go to webchat.freenode.net

    pick a nickname, put in the nickname box
    in the channel box enter #librarynualt
    NB: dont forget the hash symbol

    fill in the recaptcha

    click connect

    you will join us there. see you there

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  • alien

    ifile it also close upload for registered user now

    • eis

      works here as free registered user…

  • Raposinho

    Why do you think human kind evolved exponentially in the last few years?
    Because of knowledge sharing through faster communication medium like post office and internet lately.
    Why should the greedy publishers block humanity development by keeping poor but capable (large QI) people away from knowledge.
    This is a threat against human kind.
    If the sites are making money with pub adds, share those by the authors in the same proportion as their books are being downloaded.
    End of story.
    Stop crippling human kind development in exchange of some pennies profit.
    If you want to tax, tax the results (machinery and stuff resulting from patents being applied) and not the medium.
    In this way you are just delaying human progress as inquisition did in the middle ages.

    • eis

      library.nu had no advertising and was refreshingly spam and shit free

  • irfan kaya

    It is unaccceptable to restrict reading and downloading important books. I think new ways will be discovered as soon as possible

  • Cafejazzlamr

    if possible to get an invite cafejazzlamar@gmail.com

  • Guest125

    I found another very interesting article explaing the importance of library.nu at:
    http://e-library-free.blogspot.com/

  • Starlight

    Guys, I loved gigapedia))) I am really sad it is closed now, and It would be better if someone could revitalize it. well, i was a student couple of years ago and if i bought all those books i needed to write my thesis i would probably be homeless bum. Frankly, there is no way students can buy all books they need and either universities do. Publishing companies earn a lot of dough but authors don’t. In my own opinion, knowledge has to be affordable, by spreading and sharing knowledge one make a huge contribution to the whole humanity. it is not all about money in this world. if publishing companies ruled our world then entire human race would be illiterate and unable to do reach the state we are in now.

  • Saki

    i am student and has highly been benefited from library.nu. I feel so sorry to know that library.nu has been fallen a victim of corporates. Isn’t there something we users can do to get the library.nu out of this mess, instead of building alternate portal for our own personal uses???

  • Alihossain_ddc

    please create an alternative way to share ebooks……………

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000118516689 Antonio Peña

    NO NO NO!,just f*cking no! Library.nu was a huge source of knowledge,it had so many excelent books that might never be available in my country,even if they were most students could not afford them ):

  • Cd

    gigapedia / LNU changed my life. That’s all I’ll say. But what will happen to the admins, what will happen to Smiley? Are they in deep trouble now? Will prosecutions follow? Can one guess or estimate what will happen? I’m genuinely concerned. These people need support.

  • Mansourtahar19

    Please invit me.
    mansourtahar19@gmail.com

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  • Tamnator

    Please invite me at bitme
    tamnator [at] gmail [.] com

    Thanks

  • Rudibudiyono

    Hi, i lost my account on library.nu. Please add me rudibudiyono@gmail.com. thx

  • Saki

    can smbody send me bitme.org invite as well… here at kafir.saki@gmail.com

  • arial

    I also need an invite, my email is arialgrs@gmail.com

    Thank you in advance :)

  • Gcel2k

    Add me to the list, please: gcel2k at yahoo.com

  • Mansalman2010
  • Natree01 Cloud

    Please invite me too
    natree01.cloud@gmail.com
    thanks in advance

  • costel coroban

    can you also please invite kostyel@gmail.com on biteme.org, thanks!

  • x083 anonymous

    please give me an invite to bitme.org thank you, my email address is mr.x083@gmail.com

  • Teorikokuma

    hi there, I can exchange theatre theory, philosophy, art theory books pdfs, lets create a book pool, that any one can dive in… mail me from teorikokuma@gmail.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/rheinful Rheinful Lee

    Anyone, please invite me to bitme…
    I’m looking for ebook to my college.
    my email defhein@yahoo.com

    Thank you

  • Cosminco2002

    I need an invitation too, please.
    cosminco2002@yahoo.co.ik

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  • Dc

    library.nu dying was worse than hearing Christopher Hitchens was dying

  • Horatio

    Please, invite me too slavkopape@yahoo.com

  • SJ

    Please invite me too. sldsjd@gmail.com Thanks!

  • Gns_0f_rds

    OMG!!!
    GREAT LOSS!!!

  • Nikola_s_one

    bitme.org INVITE PLEASE? nikola_s_one@yahoo.com

    • azimuth

      Hello, I would be grateful if I anyone could provide me an invitation for bitme@
      maenlesta@hotmail.com

  • hrmlnm

    Please invite me too for bitme. org
    Thanks

    hrmlnm@gmail.com

  • hrmlnm

    @ smiley & other staff

    I don’t know who you are, where you live and what you are doing now. But, believe me,

    I never forget what you did. Thanks for all your efforts. I miss you all.

    A person from a poor country

  • B Safaryrad

    why they do this? how can we access to the books that we needs, the books prices are to high to buy for us ! what can we do know ?

  • Shery

    HEy guys Do you mind sending me an invitation for bitme.org ?
    Tanx in advance
    Shery
    Shinalife At Yahoo.com

  • Mailtorko

    Friends belong­ing to a mid­dle class soci­ety it is very dif­fi­cult to man­age sci­ence peri­od­i­cals and costly books.Library.nu was pro­vid­ing a break­through to research works by mak­ing the resources avail­able may be by cheat­ing the mis­er­able pub­lish­ers. It’s really a shock­ing news for the students/researchers for whom money is a con­straint and a golden blade for the money hunter pub­lish­ers. Library.nu was like a Robin hood for the young researchers. At last many many thanks to library.nu and as well as this por­tal to give a chance to express my views.

    REPLY

  • Na_murugan

    library.nu and gigapedia.org are very usefull library at all (all books in a single click). They try to make as a commercial library with nominal cost of subscription with legal permission of all publishers .

  • Charlie

    I was devastated to find out that Library.nu has been shut down. Books are too expensive in my country, and Library.nu had been a good source of free ebooks to use in college and to widen my knowledge. Yes, I love to read books, but I don’t have the money to buy them at book stores because they are too expensive. Knowledge should be free to anyone who wants to be knowledgeable through reading books.

  • Rasho

    Hi everybody,

    Can someone invite me for bitme.org? ill really appreciate it.
    Thanks in advance.
    My email: rash1_2005@hotmail.com.

  • maroucha

    could you plz consider me
    kaabimaroua@gmail.com
    i’m writing my thesis and unfortunately i didn’t find any free web site which offer me free materials as gigapedia did
    plz i need help

  • rimi

    please invite me.

    sagni2002@yahoo.fr

  • Allisover

    PLEASE INVITE ME,,,,, :)

    allisover@yahoo.com

  • dan_publishing_fuckers

    Pls invite me

    darthquevedus@gmail.com

    Thanks.

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  • nik

    I am so mad about this. Can someone please send me invitation for http://www.bitme.org on nikolastojanovic.sr@gmail.com

    People, please we should unite they are hunting down one by one service. Free knowledge for all this is the new age not brave new world.

  • giapmanhcuongbk

    My email is: giapmanhcuongbk@yahoo.com
    Please invite me. I am a student.
    Thank you very much.

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  • Wizzerking

    May I also have an invite wizzerking@gmail.com I will be happy to share all the math, symposia and Computer Stuff, and chemistry

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Polina-Peicheva/100003163321928 Polina Peicheva

    It would be really helpful if you can send me an invite, too. I want to uplode many files from library.nu – most of books, are philosophical and books about learning languages.My e-mail is – brestlwe@gmail.com

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VKI36PH5RENWX3BRUVLYEDZFTQ Joace

    I am a 27 years old doctor,mature and beautiful. and now i am seeking a good man who can give me real love, so i got a sername Andromeda2002 on Agedate.?òM, a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men, to interact with each other.Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.

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    Dear Torrentfreak user, or user’s

    I am a student hoping to transfer to a California University soon. I am short on money and I do need to find one more textbook. The book is New Perspectives on JavaScript and AJAX, Comprehensive. I hope that you may still have a BitMe.ORG invitation still available. If it may help I do have demonoid.me invitation code to offer. Thx

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  • Mohamed_el Bahay

    please invite me mohamed_el.bahay@yahoo.com
    thank you

  • Mary Linkova

    please give me also an invite
    I have a large collection of medical books

    mary.linkova@gmail.com

  • boatman

    I think library.nu actually might of helped sales for publishers at times

    How many people actually bought a book after downloading it
    as they preferred to own the `real thing` ?

  • Divyanksha2121

    Dear all ,I an deeply pained by the loss of LNU , I just discovered it few months back and it really helped me in my post graduation , I still need access to various books related to psychology , if anyone could please share any site from where I could download books I would be really very grateful . please help

  • Ishti

    my email is: ishti_gr8@yahoo.com
    plz invite me

  • PJ

    Would appreciate bitme invite:
    pjhwm1280@yahoo.com

    Have a large library of mental health books to share.

  • Rahimi Meysam

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  • Rahimi Meysam

    please invite me too: rahimi.meysam@gmail.com

  • Ztalk

    Hello Jenna: Pls invite me as well. my email is: zhgtalk51@gmail.com. Hope to hear from you soon…

  • Woertgner

    Pls invite me too, I have about 26GB of books from lnu. My email: vernadoss@gmail.com

  • comment

    guys, stop begging for a bitme.org invitation, it´s in no way better than any other torrent indexer, regarding books. you should rather get a bit deeper into sharing, torrenting, newsboarding, tor-ing etc. before you bring yourself in an unwanted criminal position. downloading from library is one thing. uploading to possibly millions while torrenting another.

  • Dam

    please invite me diegoalmacedo@gmail.com
    thanks

  • Ivan

    I would appreciate an invite to josanivan@gmail.com. Thx

  • Kyabyar

    plea add me too if possible- kyabyar@gmail.com

  • Goosmoo

    You goofs oughta at least try to disguise your email somehow….

    /sigh

    y’all must like spam. lol

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    my i join, my email is bolsa2loi@yahoo.com

  • Arisoneclick

    great information,…it would be useful ,invite me please! my email: arisoneclick@gmail.com, thank u in advance

  • Hykbooks

    please may i get an invite too in Jerusalem we don’t have access to English books

    my email is

    hykbooks@yahoo.com

  • Flowerover

    please invite me. I am a lecturer and really need it. my email is flowerover@gmail.com

  • Anonymous

    i dont see authors complaining just the greedy big publishers can someone tell them that in their face?

  • Anonymous

    ~deleted~

  • pediatrician

    please add me too if possible

    infopediatric@gmail.com

  • Max Renn

    The Internet: Well, it was fun and resourceful for a while.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YFY2EF75XVYRLAO6XXOYCT5III Tron

    can someone invite me to abcdfree.com
    email: transformer3x@yahoo.com

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YFY2EF75XVYRLAO6XXOYCT5III Tron

    Can someone please tell us similar websites like library.nu? (in reply. thanks)

    Keywords: similar like libarary.nu, ebooks, free books, free text books, free geography books, free law books, free mathematics books, dowload for free, scientific american, fatloss ebooks, Judaism Books, Islamic books, History of modern europe, American History, Islamic History, Greek Mythology.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YFY2EF75XVYRLAO6XXOYCT5III Tron

    Can someone please tell us similar websites like library.nu? (in reply. thanks)

    Keywords: similar like libarary.nu, ebooks, free books, free text books, free geography books, free law books, free mathematics books, dowload for free, scientific american, fatloss ebooks, Judaism Books, Islamic books, History of modern europe, American History, Islamic History, Greek Mythology.

  • Ricardo Petuci

    please if i could have one invite either…. i am medicine student, and it´s getting hard to buy all the books!! almondega.cozida@gmail.com

    cheers mate]1

  • http://softwarepc.tk/ THE One

    THE DOMAIN (“library.nu”) HAS BEEN REVOKED BY .NU DOMAIN

  • ZanyHermit

    If there are any invites left, I would really appreciate it.
    hermitzany@gmail.com

  • Nurdalila3006

    i appreciate your invitation.i really need it.please add me

    nurdalila3006@gmail.com

    thank you

  • Mohamezz

    ebookshare.net
    theebooksbay.com

  • Guest

    paperman2020@gmail.com
    invitation please

  • Guest
  • Librarian

    go to librarypirate.me guys. they have books too

  • Gepla

    Dear Jenna Brennan
    thanks for the invite
    please in my email
    gepla@arcor.de

    many thanks!

  • Gepla

    Hallo Jenna Brennan
    can i hava an Invite please?
    thanks a lot

    George

  • Baamcaam

    pls send invitation: baamcaam@yahoo.com

  • Anonymous
  • Ehsan

    please invite me:

    shakeri.un@gmail.com

    Tanx.

  • Mhk Cadastro

    please, invite me ….
    mhk.cadastro@gmail.com

  • kush

    Hello Jenna,
    I would appreciate an invite.
    Thank you

  • Ugofrei

    could you please add me ugofrei@gmail.com thanks

  • Nick Peim

    Any chance of an invite? I don’t know what I’ll do without library.nu.

    Thanks,

    nickpeim@gmail.com

  • Eshagh rahimi

    please invite me
    eshaghrahimi@gmail.com

  • Guest

    I would really appreciate an inviteation.
    My email is mondocane2009@bol.com.br
    Thank you a lot

  • Kermiche Messaoud

    invite me please
    kermiche.messaoud@gmail.com
    i have tons of books i can shre

  • R Movahed

    @ Jenna Brennan
    i will be thank full would you please send me an invitation?
    r.movahed@iiees.ac.ir

  • Mohammed Alkhawlani

    please invite me too
    mohammed.alkhawlani@gmail.com

  • yama

    please invite me : yama.mons@gmail.com

  • JS111

    Coul you please please also invite me:

    janko.sencar@gmail.com

    Thank you in advance and hope to be able to contribute something useful.

  • Gzakri

    can someone invite me to abcdfree.com
    email: gzakri@gmail.com

  • Huwborg

    please invite me huwborg@gmail.com

  • Parvda

    The best location for building the alternative is the country where the internet law is loose

  • Shirzadusefi

    plz invite me too: shirzadusefi@gmail.com

  • cnrme1

    I am a Chinese student. Can you also invite me zsrm31@163.com

  • sodAZobe

    I’m a BA student working on my thesis … Can someone please send me an invite for BitMe?

    sodazobe@yahoo.com

    Thank you very, very much!!

  • Pac1f1er

    Invites sent to everyone above, chill out and enjoy folks. And hit those books, not the pipes.

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  • Popos
  • Awe_inspiring_me
  • Evolve

    evrimenator@gmail.com thanks a lot..

  • ? ?

    Thank you !
    fangzheq@gmail.com

  • Imran Ali632

    I would love an invite, if still available. My email is imran.ali632@gmail.com.

  • Tommoirangthem

    Please invite me to http://biteme.org/
    my email is tommoirangthem@gmail.com

    Thank you

  • marlon taylor

    I would also greatly an invite. My email is mtaylor150@hotmail.com

  • abhi

    plz invite me too, i will be thankful to you
    apsiilm@rediffmail.com
    thanks

  • Zein

    please invite me, i’m a student from indonesia, zein.sv@gmail.com
    thanks

  • Vmahdizadeh

    vmahdizadeh@gmail.com
    Could you please invite me.
    Thank you.

  • Adk1973

    plz invite me too at adk1973@gmail.com

  • Diabolik Mike

    Pls invite me too diabolikmike@gmail.com

  • Daryl

    could I get the invite? darylz@gmail.com

    many thanks

  • Aneesy

    me too please aneesy@gmail.com

  • Potamogaroukestiv

    Im a former Library.nu member (like everybody here, I hope!) Can someone please send me an invite for BitMe? Got some things to share
    potamogaroukestiv@gmail.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/tavares.andre André Tavares

    Great!

  • jay

    I would appreciate an invitation as well at

    biojaya2002@yahoo.co.in

  • Ar754

    ar754@hotmail.com

    invite plz

  • Abcz1102

    Pls invite me: abcz1102@hotmail.com

  • Anas Elgammal

    Dears,

    Would you please send me invitation on BitMe.org at anas.elgammal@gmail.com

    Thanks and best regards.

    Anas El-Gammal

  • K8

    Please invite me too, I’m a struggling student: green.phases@gmail.com

  • Arkanderr

    Could you send me an invite arkanderr@gmail.com
    Thanks

  • S R Alem

    my email: s.r.alem@gmail.com
    Thanks in advance!

  • Mimix0

    Hello Jenna,
    I’d really appreciate it if you could invite me: mimix0@yahoo.com

    Thank you in advance :D

  • Tare

    if it is still possible, I would appreciate if you invite me. Cheers

    tarekegnberhane@yahoo.com

  • Eduedix

    i also desperately need an invite.
    Thanks in advance.
    eduedix at gmail dot com

  • Grad

    These are all academic publishers. The books they publish are sold for the highest prices, yet the authors of the books often receive next to nothing (or literally nothing), despite a book going for 70-100$, also, the authors are not in control of pricing! It’s just outrageous that they say “We will not tolerate free-loaders who make unearned profits by depriving AUTHORS and publishers of their due compensation.”

  • 1010011100

    its back http://library.nu/

  • Milad

    Hi,
    I’ll be thankfull for an invitation
    hmdalarabi@yahoo:disqus .com

    thanks alot

  • Binay

    Plz make an invite me.
    binaygeo@gmail.com

  • Dangkimgiao

    Jenna, please send me an invitation. My email is dangkimgiao@gmail.com
     Thanks a lot! 

  • Alexpaultharappel

    please send an invitation to me. alexpaultharappel@gmail.com

  • Tare

    Hi Jenna, please send me an invitation http://www.bitme.org
    I am one of the victims with the loss of Library.nu. My email is : tarekegnberhane@yahoo.com

    By the way does anyone come across any other good site to download books? Please share. Sharing is caring!!! cheers

  • Salic

    Hi everybody,

    Can someone invite me for bitme.org? ill really appreciate it.Thanks in advance.My email:salic7@yahoo.co.in

  • Ph.D.

    may I get an invite as well?

    I’m a PhD student and LNU was the best ever for me!

    Thank You in advance!

    kostja_k@gmx.de

  • KhalidX

      please invite me.

    kHALIDX@HOTMAIL.COM

    • http://twitter.com/Kyokaduigetsu jose

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  • http://twitter.com/Kyokaduigetsu jose

    invitame por favor , el conocimiento debe ser libre,  desemanforo@yahoo.com

  • Bitmebook

    Can anyone invite me to Bitme:

    bitmebook@gmail.com

    Thank you so much.
    p

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