Mygazines.com

Mygazines.com is a free site devoted to sharing, collecting and archiving magazine articles. The site launched back in July 2008 looking to create a low carbon solution to trading and creating magazines.Official Site: Mygazine.com Tour Files must be in Adobe PDF format to be uploaded to the site, where you can then mix and match files as you see fit.Official Site: Mygazine.com Tour

Time Warner and other companies are looking into ways to shut Mygazines.com down due to its encouragement of copyright infringement.CNET News: New Magazine-Sharing Site Escapes Copyright... (August 15, 2008) Since the site is not registered in The United States, this could be difficult to achieve. The web site currently is registered in Anguilla, a Caribbean island.CNET News: New Magazine-Sharing Site Escapes Copyright... (August 15, 2008) The creators of the web site do not believe they are doing a disservice to the magazine industry. In an e-mail to The Press Gazette, they make clear that, "We have every intention of working with the industry to provide not only revenue streams that are vast, but also an answer for the publishers in general. Our method will increase current revenue, halt and reverse advertising revenue lost to the internet, and overcome the lack of the ability for magazines to stay current."RexBlog.com: Mygazines.com’s Creator Responds To Critics... (August 5, 2008) In 2005, file sharing service Grokster was shut down for encouraging the sharing of copyrighted materials.MSNBC: Grokster agrees to shut down for good (November 7, 2005)