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High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Students (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Tretiak@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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[–] kinther@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was in college pre 2006 and didn't have the option to pirate books (that i knew of). If it was an option you're damn right I would have done it. My books were easily $300+ for the quarter and I can't imagine how much they are now.

[–] FuryFaceofDoom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

First year is when they nab you. My first year I had ONE textbook cost over $200 by itself. I probably spend over $1000 my first year on textbooks. 2nd year I refused to buy a single one, and pirated them all