Text book filesharing called into question

July 3rd, 2008   News  

While students have been consistently targeted by the RIAA for filesharing violations, it has usually been related to illegal free music downloads. The whole filesharing debacle has taken a turn as the makers of text books have started voicing concerns that students are using filesharing services to get copyrighted study books.

It’s a tough call. The students are presumably using the books to aid their education, but they are effectively stealing them. How do you approach such a situation? Sue the students for all the money they have?

Sites such as Textbook Torrents call on students to scan their text books and upload them. This is perhaps crossing the line. It’s one thing that filesharing is used to obtain material, but asking students to actively violate laws and upload data is a whole different matter.

A number of links to text books have been taken down recently and there will likely be more to follow. Where do you stand on this?

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