Website That Provided Pirated Textbooks Closes Up Shop

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the renegade site Textbook Torrents is shutting down permanently. Its owner, “Geekman”, had set up shop as a way to circumvent the high cost of textbooks. But now he says possible legal action has dissuaded him from keeping the site up. He says in part,

Textbook Torrents is now permanently offline.

There are a number of reasons for this, but I would be lying if I claimed that the concern of legal action wasn’t a major factor in the decision. However, it was by no means the only reason. Upkeep of a site this size is a lot of work, increasingly so as time progressed. What’s more, two years is a long time to be running a site of this nature.