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My college in Slovenia had the print shop. It was next door to the main faculty building and they could pirate any textbook you needed. You didn't even need to
by Swizec 3y ago
My college in Slovenia had the print shop.
It was next door to the main faculty building and they could pirate any textbook you needed. You didn't even need to know the name of the book, you could just say "I need the book for so and so professor's so and so class" and they'd print it out for you. All the source files were already on their copy machines' hard drives.
While technically illegal, this was fully endorsed by faculty and administration in the "If you need books, don't go next door and print them there. Under no circumstances are you to do that. Again, don't under any circumstances go next door and ask for these books at 5 cents per page. And whatever you do, do _not_ ask for 2 pages per page in tiny print to make it cheaper"
- e3bc54b2 3y agoHeh, thats pretty cool. Here in India we just legalized copying for educational purposes. No tricks necessary!
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agouh.. you sure about that? https://www.edexlive.com/news/2021/oct/05/forget-movies-delhi-police-arrests-38-year-old-for-printing-pirated-ncert-textbooks-24557.html https://www.edexlive.com/news/2021/oct/05/forget-movies-delh... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Book-piracy-racket-busted-Rs-1-cr-haul/articleshow/1300774.cms https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Book-piracy-r...
- slim 3y agocopyright oligarchs are ruthless. in Tunisia we had UN supported "Tunis model law on copyright for developing countries" since 1967 which includes provisions against copyright for teaching, research and health. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000091049 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000091049 but in 1993 Microsoft bribed the regime to change those laws
- riffraff 3y agoSame in Italy when I was a student some twenty years ago. Noticeably, this was done at multiple print shops in the university area, and you could get a discount or a free copy if you brought the original when a new book was chosen. The whole academic establishment basically was aware of this, except for a few professors who insist on selling their own book, but it's typically in humanities or social sciences.