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- dsmx, on 09/29/2008, -4/+64Disgusting, how did the pirate bay only manage 85% of books in the top sellers list.
- dragonrice, on 09/30/2008, -6/+55LEAVE THEPIRATEBAY ALONE!!!!
- CaptShmo, on 09/30/2008, -3/+38we will never have this big of a book piracy problem in america... :(
- vfreak2, on 09/30/2008, -2/+37The news about this site is almost as entertaining as the content contained on it.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -4/+33i wish there were more books on piratebay. my college made me pay 100-200 dollars a book. what a rip off.
- mnortei, on 09/30/2008, -5/+29***** the author's.When it comes to textbooks students get ripped off like nothing else. My cheapest textbook this year was $110, and even then it was used.
- vfreak2, on 09/30/2008, -1/+23I mean, the content "possibly" contained in files merely indexed on the site. Hah.
- icantdenythis, on 09/30/2008, -2/+17libraries?
- PedoRcketSrgeon, on 09/30/2008, -2/+15I agree with djoobacca. The textbook industry has a stranglehold on students with very few substitutes available. If a prof makes the book "required", your SOL. My sympathy meter runs on empty for them, especially as they increase the frequency of editions to stamp out the used market (cough* video games??) which increases the inflation
on our degrees and for many that may mean the choice between things like food, clothing, different housing arrangements etc. If you think I'm exaggerating consider that on a $1000 course, you can easily pay $200 for a text.
5 courses , $1000 per semester on books alone (2K per year). Assume that in past years you could recover half of that $200 thanks to the used market, which is no longer the case, thanks to the increased "editions" now being printed.
- masterofgrond, on 09/30/2008, -0/+12Look harder. For most widely used textbooks out there you can find someone on the internet who will sell you a softcover international version of the textbook that is exactly the same as the regular one for 20 or 30 bucks. Delivery can take a little while but I'll be damned if I'm going to sink 600 bucks into books a semester. I average about $100-150 now.
abebooks.com is usually a good place to start but make sure you're getting the correct versions, unless the old version will suffice, which it will sometimes. - Dagreenman, on 09/30/2008, -1/+13im surprised people pirate books considering they are a pain in the ass to scan and hard to read on a computer screen.
- JCPahl, on 09/30/2008, -2/+12When you check out a book, you're checking out communism.
- shazbotben, on 09/30/2008, -0/+9Library?
- nybble41, on 09/30/2008, -1/+10The difference is that what TPB is doing -- indexing and linking to potentially copyright-infringing content -- is perfectly legal in Sweden, as evidenced by their continued existance. Violating a web site's terms of service is a completely different matter, and may actually be illegal there.
- sfacets, on 09/30/2008, -1/+9If Piracy promotes Literacy, then I'm all for it. (Actually I'm already all for it.)
- ccb621, on 09/30/2008, -1/+9You may not see them, but the ninjas will join the fray as well.
- phantom_mullet, on 09/30/2008, -2/+10http://www.textbooktorrents.com/
You're welcome. - inactive, on 09/30/2008, -1/+8Well, if you sue companies for suing you they typically leave you the hell alone. I'm sure they're aware of the hypocrisy.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -1/+7woooooooosh
- Sendai129, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6Except you know... the people that read the books because they *gasp* enjoy them? Books aren't only for school...
- KidCargo, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6If it is a book about communism, then, yes.
- whatthefu, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5That's the only case where it would be acceptable. Good point.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -2/+7They obey all copyright laws. The thing about the Pirate Bay is they're incredibly in line with the law, more so than any investigator cares to admit.
- toetagger, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5Amazon has a used textbook section: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4raxwg
http://www.ecampus.com/ And some others. - b3and1p, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5I still don't think it's ok to take something that the creator wants you to pay for. I think it is just morally wrong.
- XenoSNK, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5It's only a matter of time before it's pirates versus pirates.
- avonalt, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5Buy the international editions.
- Elranzer, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4Digital media is one thing, books is another. It's rather tedious and uncomfortable to read a giant PDF file of a novel on a computer monitor rather than reading a conventional printed novel. eBooks are all but failures. I don't that book publishers really have anything to worry about from TPB or other book torrenting sites.
- kushin, on 09/30/2008, -2/+6Knowledge is Free.
- ethana2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4I checked out a book about linux once..
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4If you read more you would know there is no apostrophe in the plural of authors.
- KidCargo, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4So poor that they couldn't afford the internet and possibly a cell phone? Downloading = internets
internets = at least $$$ a muuuunth
It's all about the priorities.
Excuse me while I search the internet for a sandwich, cuz I'm starvin. - inactive, on 09/30/2008, -1/+5It's perfectly legal anywhere, as demonstrated by Google's continued existence.
- junaru, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Wait, there's more entertainment in TPB besides their legal page ?
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4Do authors get better compensated by their publisher or are they screwed over like musicians?
- avonalt, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4Textbooks are like music. The vast majority of the profits go to the publisher.
- wexmajor, on 09/30/2008, -4/+7OH NO POOR PEOPLE MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- jvincent08, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4In Sweden, what TPB is doing is completely legal and does not infringe on any copyright laws whatsoever.
- diggdatt, on 09/30/2008, -2/+5Burying this, I cant lose access to ebooks online, pretend this is not a problem
- compgeek, on 09/30/2008, -7/+10good lord book piracy? give me a ***** break
- BooneFaustus, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4I agree. I can't bring myself to read a book on a computer. I've tried but it just feels too weird, and the bright screen is annoying. There is something about reading where I have to feel the book in my hand and be able to turn the pages, etc... That and being able to bring it with you anywhere is nice.
- MrJagil, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3I live in europe, so i got them all for free!
- BrokenCircle, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4Wait until you hit graduate studies where each professor writes and sells their own text books.
- iceman0113, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Good, bring on the book reports. I was a reader in college, meaning I corrected papers for professors and most of these students could not write a decent paragraph. After this year, the bio department decided to require 2 more upper division English classes before they could graduate. If sentence structure, vocabulary, and just basic essay structures were heavier requirements for their essays, not one of them would've passed their bio classes. Do yourself and America a favor, pick up a book and read; whether it be a comic book or a novel, don't take your education for granted.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4It's a whole different experience, I can seldom get in to music, movies and videos games as much as I can for a good book. Reading 'The Talisman' (Stephen King/Peter Straub) at the moment, the way it can pull me in for hours every day is amazing.
- jvincent08, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3True that.
- Dumbledorito, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3I was wondering why there was so much bork-bork-bork in the audiobooks section.
- iceman0113, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2I know that most professors are well compensated unless it's a used book. They only receive the money from new books that are sold. Just look at JK Rowling, but professors probably bank a lot too. Especially if it's a workbook created by them and can only be used once...
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2I don't care about book piracy regardless. The only books I've ever purchased are my college textbooks which do cost an arm and a leg and I only get like 30% of what I paid for it by selling it back. Then they make their book all extravagant looking just to make it more expensive. So yeah, I can care less about text book publishers but you can't really group them with novels though. Novels are much smaller and you usually have a choice of hardback or paperback so you don't have to pay as much. It's a pain in the ass to read on a computer screen anyway so pirating books wouldn't be that advantageous to me.
- compu73rg33k, on 09/30/2008, -2/+4Because you can only listen at about 200-300 words per minute. I can read 900 words per minute. That's efficiency.
It's not just about entertainment either. It's about learning. Obviously you've failed. -
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