How California campuses are fixing the problem of pricey college books

Re:How California campuses are fixing the problem of pricey ... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:00PM (#16386540)

> Students should feel absolutely no guilt in pirating textbooks.

False.

> The whole industry is a racket, designed to exploit kids in a situtation where they have no choice.

True. But your previous sentence does not follow from this. The bad actions of others do not justify your own bad actions, no matter how tempting it becomes to think otherwise.

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Re:How California campuses are fixing the problem of pricey ... by HarryHirsch on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:02PM (#16388149)

The bad actions of others do not justify your own bad actions, no matter how tempting it becomes to think otherwise.

Dunno. 15 years ago all the Ivy League libraries campaigned against Elsevier's pricing and achieved precisely nothing. We had to wait for Scihub.

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Re:How California campuses are fixing the problem of pricey ... by CaptSpify on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:55PM (#16389129)

I have yet to hear a valid argument why pirating educational matetials is a "bad action" in the first place

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Re:How California campuses are fixing the problem of pricey ... by Can_Not on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:10PM (#16416503)

If you think the right to education trumps the right to property, then you've done nothing wrong.

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