[Buddha-l] Using (or not using) Library.nu

[Margaret Gouin]

On 19 July 2011 05:58, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> On another matter of practical reason, do any of you have any unfounded
> emotion-based convictions to share on the matter of whether it is acceptable
> to download books from a website registered on the Polynesian Island state
> of Niue? The site http://library.nu/ has some 65000 electronic
> reproductions of books...
>

This issue of unlicensed downloads has come under discussion recently with
regard to the Buddha Torrents (http://buddhisttorrents.blogspot.com/) site:
see

http://americanbuddhist.blogspot.com/2011/07/stealing-sharing-precepts-wisdom.html

and subsequent posts.

Library.nu used to be gigapedia.com; yes lots of illegal books. I've
occasionally downloaded electronic copies of books I already own, for the
convenience of carrying some of my library in my netbook. I have moral
conflicts over academic pricing: why should a publisher charge over US$100
for an ebook? or even for a hardback, come to that? How free should
knowledge be?

A vexed question in many ways.

-- 
Margaret Gouin
http://independent.academia.edu/ad3b