...the works I needed. So I used libgen and I used torrents. I asked my friends at other universities to share resources and I downloaded PDF after PDF, breaking DRMs so that I could learn and write. I could do this because I was privileged in a country where most are not.
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Not everyone knows or has access to technical skills. Not everyone has access to the internet either. Hundreds of thousands of students share material downloaded onto thumb drives because they have no other choice. Should they stop learning and trying to know more?
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What kind of world do you envision when you reject people's requests for PDFs? For open and free access to work? What kind of gates and walls do you build when you demand that graduate students or undergrads in financial difficulty, pay the cost of their monthly groceries for ...
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...one book? Let's be clear. You'd rather have a publisher make money, than allow someone to know more. You'd rather let someone's academic aspirations die, than let them use a pirated copy. That doesn't make you an educator, it makes you a corporate cog-in-the-wheel.
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Every book I've bought since moving to the US has been a result of me reading an excerpted or complete PDF and then getting a physical copy because I loved the work.
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Yes. Individual purchases are a drop in the pond.
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As someone who was involved in the nonsense from the last few days, the grad student (my friend) and myself and others made this point several times over. They didn't seem to care, and still said that it was stealing and that it means publishers aren't being paid. Nonsense.
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Besides, any book that has been scanned was already purchased once. Might as well be like getting it from a library.
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