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Textbook Torrent 'Now Permanently Offline'

By soulxtc

Admin blames "concern of legal action" and "upkeep of a site this size" for his decision to permanently close down the BitTorrent tracker site. College students everywhere are certain to be saddened over news that Textbook Torrents, the BitTorrent tracker site that once offered more than 6,000 college textbooks for download in the .PDF format, has been shut down for good. "There are very few scanned textbooks in circulation, and that's what we're here to change," used to read a welcome message on the site. "Chances are you have some textbooks sitting around, so pick up a scanner and start scanning it!" Visitors are now greeted with a much more somber message.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).