Unfortunately a lot of the fucking publishers are getting aware of this fact and their curriculum is now being tied to a online portal revolving around these books which is only available with a one-time code
This kills piracy but more importantly used and significantly less frowned upon practice of - secondhand books.
I didn’t buy a single book in community college. Thank you private torrent sites!
The worst is when the teacher is peddling their own book at ridiculous, inflated prices. That should be a crime.
i stopped after the time when amazon came around, with books only and through google search i was able to get one book off. that was a little year before transfered toa 4 year, then i really was on the hunt at the time for torrented/free book downloads. yea those online access and professor exclusive books were annoying. pre-2010s was annoying since there were really any available sites to pirate books yet. only after the decade began when it really took off.
Yeah, you were pretty boned back then. Bibliotik private tracker started around 2011 or so, but it was almost impossible to get into back then, and it remains that difficult today. I lost my account, so I’m screwed. That was far and away the BEST resource for that sort of thing.
My country has relaxed laws on piracy, so we had almost no books in our university, teachers just sent up pirated PDFs in a group chat
Unfortunately a lot of the fucking publishers are getting aware of this fact and their curriculum is now being tied to a online portal revolving around these books which is only available with a one-time code
This kills piracy but more importantly used and significantly less frowned upon practice of - secondhand books.
Most of the subjects they teach, at a college level, have not changed in decades…
If a teacher wants to use the “latest” in Shakespearean literature - that’s 100% a choice.
Of it’s definitely a choice, there’s probably a financing additional incentive to the college or even instructor to adapt these anti sharing policies
I didn’t buy a single book in community college. Thank you private torrent sites! The worst is when the teacher is peddling their own book at ridiculous, inflated prices. That should be a crime.
i stopped after the time when amazon came around, with books only and through google search i was able to get one book off. that was a little year before transfered toa 4 year, then i really was on the hunt at the time for torrented/free book downloads. yea those online access and professor exclusive books were annoying. pre-2010s was annoying since there were really any available sites to pirate books yet. only after the decade began when it really took off.
Yeah, you were pretty boned back then. Bibliotik private tracker started around 2011 or so, but it was almost impossible to get into back then, and it remains that difficult today. I lost my account, so I’m screwed. That was far and away the BEST resource for that sort of thing.