Huh wow, thanks! ^_^ On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 10:21 AM Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Gillian > > It's not an unpopular opinion at all. > > The High Court at New Delhi, India considered these issues and said it's > perfectly legal for a teacher to PHOTOCOPY or REPRODUCE chapters of > over-priced/unaffordable/expensive foreign textbooks for the benefit of > their students, AND that no royalty is to be paid to the book publishers. > The exceptionally well reasoned decision was upheld by the Supreme Court > of India after the book publishers withdrew their appeals. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rameshwari_Photocopy_Service_shop_copyright_case > > So if you know anybody needing photocopies (2 cents per page of expensive > books accessible to our vast library of PDFs and DJVUs, I would be happy to > have them as my student ;-) > > Sarbajit Roy > New Delhi, India > > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:24 AM Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'll put this out their as I suspect a unpopular opinion. It's be been my >> unfortunate experience teachers want ridiculously expensive specialty >> books. The most egregious was some prof for a management class that thought >> it'd be a good idea to drop 700 dollars on a book. Most of the class except >> some brown-noser agreed. He did EVENtUALLY relent to do case-studies >> inlue of the book. IMO I got more out of reading and writing about >> actually cases of successful and unsuccessful management from real life >> than a 700 dollar book >> When people wonder why books get pirated. That's probably why. >> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:03 PM Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: >> >>> Yes. libgen is a mirror site for libgen.io <http://lingen.io> that has >>> everything on it. It gets taken down every once in a while. They lost a >>> suit from the publishers but being located in Eastern Europe that doesn’t >>> help. When I first went to the site, it asked me to turn off my add blocker >>> so THEY could make some money. Then I looked at their donation tab and the >>> only way to donate was via bitcoin or an Eastern European credit card. >>> >>> Students tell me they all know about the site. >>> >>> Ed >>> _______________________ >>> >>> Ed Angel >>> >>> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory >>> (ARTS Lab) >>> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico >>> >>> 1017 Sierra Pinon >>> Santa Fe, NM 87501 >>> 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu >>> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel >>> >>> On Jul 4, 2020, at 5:58 PM, Roger Frye <frye.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Ed, >>> FYI: The latest edition that I see on the Israeli version of the pirate >>> site (libgen.is) is the 7th. >>> -Roger >>> >>> >>> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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