Re: BitTorrent now being used for piracy of textbooks

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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 Are you kidding me, that book is outdated the day 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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