Library.nu

Library.nu, originally gigapedia.com, was a website that offered digital books for download.

The website offered to approximately 400,000 primarily attributable to the educational books. The platform should have had a turnover of 8 million euros, according to estimates of the Association of German Book Trade. The operator of ifile.it described the estimates as ridiculous, the sales would barely cover the server costs.

Prosecution for copyright infringement

With the website of the platform is, according to the indictment, the file hosting ifile.it be connected. Library.nu presented in February 2012 after interim orders of the District Court of Munich I ceased operation. The injunction was issued through the efforts of a total of 17 publishers. These were: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Informa UK Limited, The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc., John Wiley & Sons Inc., Verlag CH Beck, Elsevier, Springer Verlag GmbH, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Cengage Learning Inc., Pearson Education, Inc. and Limited, HarperCollins Publishers, Hogrefe, The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.. and Georg Thieme Verlag.