After “awareness” campaigns that failed to move the needle for years, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy. The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook. The anti-piracy group prefers not to mention the targeted platforms but says it uses undercover monitoring of private groups to gather evidence.
I used to email everyone in class a copy of all the books I’d get off libgen/anna’s
Knowledge is expensive
Stupidity is free
It shouldn’t be that way
Our professors would just show us how under the guise of “definitely don’t do this”.
Sometimes I had professors give us all readings for free including by scanning things themselves from the library and distributing paid journals they weren’t supposed to
Sometimes I had professors who wrote the textbook and demanded students buy the new edition every year for self enrichment
Sometimes I had professors who wrote the textbook but they’d tell us to buy the old ones cheap and then gave us free print outs of the newly added materials
Professors are a mixed bag
I had a professor who wrote the book. The worst part is, it was a book guiding you through the use of Autodesk Revit. A software that has PLENTY of ressources online to learn without having to pay anything, let alone €100. I opened those books twice, and googled everything else.
I once had a professor use an open curriculum for a specific thing only 1 publisher makes a book for
Like schools and professionals just buy the book for reference and it’s considered a standard field manual of sorts but there are a handful of essentially free/open compilations of the same material just not printed for sale
First time I had a professor actually tell us he was using a slightly inferior free resource to save us money and also because it’s essentially the same
Yeah, I actually had one who gave out his textbook for free, but definitely had the mixture you did.
It wasn’t until my IT courses that they straight up told us to pirate it.