Re: BitTorrent now being used for piracy of textbooks

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Seth Goldhamer [seth () goldhamer net]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:15 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: RE: [IP] Re:     BitTorrent now being used for piracy of textbooks

The only people who can solve the problem are the professors who choose the
books. If they collectively let it be known that they are taking price into
account when they make their selections then maybe prices will become more
reasonable. If a lower-priced book is deficient the professor can make up
for it in classroom lectures.





-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:24 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Re: BitTorrent now being used for piracy of textbooks


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From: Kenneth_Mayer () Dell com [Kenneth_Mayer () Dell com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:26 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: RE: [IP] Re:  BitTorrent now being used for piracy of textbooks

I could not agree with Kris anymore! I recently started my first semester
teaching as an adjunct and I am shocked at what a student has to pay for a
textbook for networking. $165 bucks? Are you kidding me, that book is
outdated the day it is published. I have also been told I don't have a
choice whether to use a book outside of the schools jurisdiction, lest I
upset particular people. I feel bad for my students and I am still paying
school loans off that include textbooks. I have no sympathy for them either
as both a former student and now a teacher. If I would have had the choice
to get them off the web when I was in school, I may have considered it as
well.  Instead of embracing web by starting to use PDF's of textbooks or
downloadable courses, they continue to screw students over semester after
semester and then proceed to change the book for the semester. You know
these books actually rarely change when they have a new edition come out.
How many times can World War II actually change? (yes I am joking about the
lst one).

Ken



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