Comments on: Pirate Service Makes Textbook Rentals Last Forever http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Pirate Bay Comes to Academia | Kevin Carson | The Murph Report /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-840548 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:10:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-840548 [...] to TorrentFreak, a new service called LibraryPirate is likewise liberating digital e-textbooks from DRM-enforced [...]

]]> By: Pirate Bay Comes to Academia | Social Anarchist /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-840438 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:53:46 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-840438 [...] to TorrentFreak, a new service called LibraryPirate is likewise liberating digital e-textbooks from DRM-enforced [...]

]]> By: Pirate Bay Comes to Academia | The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-839211 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:11:35 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-839211 [...] to TorrentFreak, a new service called LibraryPirate is likewise liberating digital e-textbooks from DRM-enforced [...]

]]> By: Pirate Bay Comes to Academia /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-839095 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:29:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-839095 [...] to TorrentFreak, a new service called LibraryPirate is likewise liberating digital e-textbooks from DRM-enforced [...]

]]> By: Anonymous /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-838941 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:33:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-838941 Free is good. I love to rent textbooks.

]]> By: konduct@LibraryPirate /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-838939 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:30:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-838939 our mathematics classes are already doing this. all of the course material is available online with a 180-day login when you register and pay for classes

]]> By: Brittneyspears /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-838883 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:31:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-838883 you make some really good points.. knowledge is power, and has the ability to change lives. a brittney spears cd is mere entertainment – quite a difference if you ask me.

torrent every damn textbook out there, thank you library pirate.

]]> By: Tamerlane /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-838740 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:13:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-838740 I simply cannot afford many(most) textbooks that I want so that I can educate myself. They’re damn expensive. And do those who benefit from those astronomical prices really need that money? I’m not sure that that’s the case.
The practical reality and demands of the cards that many people are dealt overcome, I think, the abstract ideals we strive for. One of those realities is that the Internet is a democratising force. It levels the playing field. Not that long ago universities were the repository of human knowledge, now the Internet is taking on that role more and more, even with the more advanced, specific knowledge. I’m from Eastern Europe, and I can’t afford to pay thousands of dollars per year for a creative writing program in English at a UK or American university. I will do everything in my power, though, to obtain the information taught there for a price that doesn’t leave me in debt for the next god knows how many years of my life, and places like Library Pirate help me to achieve that.
Perhaps a more extreme example would better illustrate what I’m trying to say. Would you deny a citizen of a drought-stricken African country, who has access to the Internet but not to a decent university, access to a textbook about, say, irrigation techniques that conserve water in dry climates? Would you deny him access, knowing that if he put the techniques found in that book into action, a whole village would be saved from starvation? I know I wouldn’t.

]]> By: MoveFW /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-838506 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:51:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-838506 Not dissimilar, but not really useful. You guys need some content.

]]> By: MoveFW /pirate-service-makes-textbook-rentals-last-forever-110923/#comment-838507 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:51:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=40474#comment-838507 Not dissimilar, but not really useful. You guys need some content.

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