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

[JKirkpatrick]

'Library.nu used to be gigapedia.com .'

Ah yes, I began to get the picture when I registered with a name
that came back as already a user, 
it was my old gigapedia username. 

Joanna
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On Behalf Of Margaret Gouin
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:57 AM


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-pre
cepts-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
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