Hairbautt
08-08-2008, 01:48 PM
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/picture.php?albumid=25&pictureid=107"After a month of downtime, TextBook Torrents makes its return, right on time, as the first semester starts in just a few weeks. The BitTorrent tracker, dedicated to sharing knowledge in the form of textbooks, was pulled offline by Dreamhost early July because the hosting company received a takedown request."
"The Textbook Torrents tracker is considered to be the largest library of textbooks on BitTorrent. The site had been flying under the radar for quite some time but this changed a month ago. On July 1st, The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story on the site, which was picked up by Slashdotblog and later the LA Timesblog.
All this attention led to thousands of new visitors to the tracker, but the publicity also had a downside. Geekman, the administrator of Textbook Torrents told TorrentFreak that their host, xlHost, and their domain registrar, Dreamhost, both received a takedown request a few days after all the press coverage. "We received a DMCA notice from Pearson Education a week or so prior, which we complied with, but it was a group of publishers that contacted our host," he told us."
:source: Source: Full Article @ TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/textbooktorrents-makes-a-comeback-080805/)
"The Textbook Torrents tracker is considered to be the largest library of textbooks on BitTorrent. The site had been flying under the radar for quite some time but this changed a month ago. On July 1st, The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story on the site, which was picked up by Slashdotblog and later the LA Timesblog.
All this attention led to thousands of new visitors to the tracker, but the publicity also had a downside. Geekman, the administrator of Textbook Torrents told TorrentFreak that their host, xlHost, and their domain registrar, Dreamhost, both received a takedown request a few days after all the press coverage. "We received a DMCA notice from Pearson Education a week or so prior, which we complied with, but it was a group of publishers that contacted our host," he told us."
:source: Source: Full Article @ TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/textbooktorrents-makes-a-comeback-080805/)