“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated]
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Previous efforts to unmask the people behind Libgen have failed.
  • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Literally how it always was. And the new version was always like 300 dollars and you needed to buy the book for every class. Yea, hard to feel much sympathy at all for the publishers. And let’s not forget the classes like that where you NEEDED the book but then you used it twice throughout the semester. I’ve been out of school the better part of a decade and it STILL makes my blood boil remembering it.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s how it was when I went through 30 years ago. When my kid was going it was all like the other poster said. Used books could be free, but you still had to buy the full price textbook code to do the work for the class. Complete scam.