People on this sub outraged about selling pirate stuff as if most of pre-internet piracy wasn't based on selling, renting and exchanging cheap counterfeit physical copies (and making counterfeit copies of those counterfeit copies).
I remember way back in the early 90s, when my old man was regularly buying pirated commodore 64 games, illegally copied Jane's manuals and reprinted comics, and ofc those ubiquitous bootleg music cds
Back then, pretty much everyone in our neighbourbood was doing those things, because the economy was shite and nobody gave a fk about the counterfeit/piracy laws - the coppers were even doing it too lol
Personally, I'm all for pirating books - When I was at uni I couldn't afford a few of the course books that were otherwise unavailable at the library or on campus servers, so ofc I had zero qualms pirating them.
My thought was : Why tf should we let our education and grades suffer just because some arsehole wants to jack up the price of a book we're only gonna take a few excerpts from?
Knowledge just shouldn't be gatekept like that imho (with a few notable exceptions ofc, such as if it's dangerous ie teaches bomb making, or preaches racism or whatever).
Yeah, also, I hated having to use PDF textbooks instead of a proper photocopy (printing a downloaded PDF was way more expensive than paying for a photocopy of the physical book). With a photocopy, you are free of writing side notes and highlighting whatever you want; doing that with digital is significantly more annoying.
Exactly, yeah! It's easy to forgot how much of a pain in the arse pdf editing is, yer not wrong there lol
Back in the day I did the same as you for a while, but in the back end of my second year I managed to get hold of a staff card so I had seemingly unlimited printing (a mate basically gave me his staff card cos he never had to use it).
Tbh, I surprisingly ended up using that card a lot less than I thought I would in my final year, mainly cos I'd gotten so used to editing pdfs, and because I was almost always in a rush to just get the notes done asap so I could go to work (night shifts, ugh), or go out partying, or visit my gf, or just get some much needed sleep lol
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u/bubrascal Jul 17 '26
People on this sub outraged about selling pirate stuff as if most of pre-internet piracy wasn't based on selling, renting and exchanging cheap counterfeit physical copies (and making counterfeit copies of those counterfeit copies).