I can't imagine library.nu being legally screwed. There's a remarkable amount of nonsense in that filing. I cannot conceive most of it standing up if the library.nu admin gets decent lawyers. Judging from that article and my very loose sense of copyright law, I imagine they'll have a strong defense on the basis of being neither particularly profitable nor profit-oriented. It's a well known fact that IP and copyright don't exist if you have a reason to try enforcing them. It's just bullying that sometimes works. Copyright law cares only about profitability and profit-oriented when it comes time to decide whether it will screw you over, or screw you over and also screw your pets and grandmother as well.
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