I had to back down from an arguement with several of my coworkers a few months ago because they were talking about a report showing that university students admitted to breaking IP laws and illegally sharing copies of textbooks. I argued that doing it is good and cool, but that admitting to it during a questionaire by a national magazine is probably a stupid idea. My coworkers all thought I had basically just admitted to being Satan and that these professors and publishers deserved every penny they could charge for the books, because they worked hard for them. In order not to get myself fired, I had to back down and drop the subject, but that was a real eye-opener.
Wtf? I don’t even know any professors that try to get students to buy textbooks. Every prof I work with will just send you a pdf of their own book and if you paid $200 for it they’d hit you with the book
I had to back down from an arguement with several of my coworkers a few months ago because they were talking about a report showing that university students admitted to breaking IP laws and illegally sharing copies of textbooks. I argued that doing it is good and cool, but that admitting to it during a questionaire by a national magazine is probably a stupid idea. My coworkers all thought I had basically just admitted to being Satan and that these professors and publishers deserved every penny they could charge for the books, because they worked hard for them. In order not to get myself fired, I had to back down and drop the subject, but that was a real eye-opener.
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Wtf? I don’t even know any professors that try to get students to buy textbooks. Every prof I work with will just send you a pdf of their own book and if you paid $200 for it they’d hit you with the book
Out of many classes I took, I had only one where a professor made us buy his workbook. It was overpriced but not obscene.