years ago, a boy at the University of Sao Paulo created a forum and was sued.

I
wrote a support letter, I got to know [about the case] from my sin, I wrote him
telling him that i supported making those files available. why? Because Brazil ahs
become a country of first editions, which are the first and only editions that have
diminishing numbers of copies. How can you stop someone from having access to those
books.

When it was taken offline, the blog provided access to2,496 files- full length
books and academic articles - in the humanities,arts and social sciences. Based on
email requests that he received when runnning the blog. Candido argued that the
users of Liveros de Humanas ere mostly studentd from brazilian universities with
terrible libraries "During the last months of activity, the site was reaching more
than ten thousand page view per day.

The ABDR won a favorable descision in the trial and later in the fiirsr appelate
court. An incomplete back up of the Livros de humanas archive was uploaded to the
pirate bay and is still avaible as of january 2017, but best of our knowledge that
archive has not been used as a seed for the construction of a new site.
As of early 2017, the website Le Livros is probably the largest shadow library
for portugese language content Le Livros differs from Livros de Humanas in part in
that it is not exclusively academic among its 7500 titles, Le Livros has a wide
range literary and non fiction content - as well as books in fields such as law,
economics and philosphy. having learned from the experience of other sites, the
developers of Le Livros keep a low profile. The sites "about us" page traces Le
Livros history back to ios - books, a book sharing site taken down by ABDR in 2012.
This history claims that Le Livros is run by a group of students living in Portugal
, with the goal of democratizing access tofree reading, and consequently without
any intent to profit." Public information about the service remains sparse and
judging by our survey results, its impact on the ecosystem remains low.

Online Services as Informal Digital Libraries

Livros de Humanas had a two tiered structure common to many shadow libraries, in
which the index or catalog is maintained separately from file storage. This is
partly a matter of convenience -the tevhnical requirements of managing a catalog or
index are minimal -but also a matter of safety as the search imdexing and discovery
services remain a step removed from the act of downloading unauthorized content.
Dedicated search and cataloguing features aide discovery, sharing and
organizationof content in these contexts, but are not indispensable. Social media
sites, email lists, and bloga can do adequate job often,google search serves as the
glue that holds these resources together.

Among the file storage services (or cyberlockers ), 4shared is one of the most
widely used in Brazil. Like other file storage services, it is a general -purpose
service with that hosts a wide range of content it is also well known as a
destination for unauthrized media and has been included in USIR's lis of notorious
markets Minhateca, where users can organize personal folders containing files and
make them publicly.