@ploum i wish someone bought copyright.com and redirected to libgen

@ploum This is the exact polar opposite of the professor who assigns his own book to boost his sales.

@ploum My own textbook is simply free ^_^

@ploum not everyone agrees with you

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@ploum fuckin based.

@ploum I for one am in awe at their professionalism! Not only did they tell their students which sites to avoid, but also gave the URLs just so they could put them on their block list! A true gentleman.

@ploum As much as students would love this, and professors would love to do this, the system is set up to actively discourage this. At my local university, that would earn a professor quite the "talking to" from their compliance and IT offices. It would not work out well for them...

@ploum

Given academia's emphasis on respect for intellectual property, I'm not sure directing students to a repository of stolen material sends quite the right message. Yes, textbooks are a grift. That's why I never use them. All materials needed for my courses are online for free, legal access by anyone, or else I write them myself.

@ploum Looks like b-ok got shut down, over here.

@ploum@mamot.fr Seeing this as a person from Brazil puts a smile in my face because our professors would just give us the pdfs for any textbook used.

If they *didn't*, half the students wouldn't be able to study.

There was even one occasion where a professor lamented she didn't have a pdf and how there were only about ten copies at the uni's library, so I raised my hand and said "Ma'am, I own a scanner. You give me one week and I'll have it done"

So I did. Fuck "intellectual property" rent-seekers, knowledge belongs to all mankind ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@ploum

I've been doing something like this the whole time.

Why?

Because students spend too much on classes to buy overpriced books.

I mean, you can get Dover Math Series for relative peanuts. Why, then, send them to the expensive stuff written by more mediocre professors?

@ploum 🏆

@ploum Bless you.