So much for music
Music "sharing" has been a widely documented phenomenon starting Northeastern's very own Shawn Fanning through today's BitTorrent file sharing world - especially at the collegiate level. The latest thing for our oh-so clever college kids is book sharing. A site called Textbook Torrents says if you have saved enough money by using this site (say, $200 worth of textbooks), please go out and buy a scanner. Scan as many of your other textbooks as you can, and put them up here for others to benefit from. There aren't very many scanned texts out there, so let's change that. Perhaps not the most legal idea, they maybe on to a new method from companies to distribute materials to a wide audience without needed large bandwidth.Although they had made some strides, TT received a stop and desist notice from Pearson Education [78 torrents disabled], which may put a dent in there plan of textbook domination. I'll give them some school credit for a clever tag line... You Can't Torrent Beer. True, True.
posted by TheWino @ 4:19 PM
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What then do we use in college? If there is no money in writing textbooks, then why write them? Maybe for my next class I will skip recommending a book (students don't read them anyways) and just tell them to "Google" their topic.
As we go forward, we could probably give up on college entirely and just let everyone use Wikipedia to get their information, or at least go ask one of their literate friends to do it for them?
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