After “awareness” campaigns that failed to move the needle for years, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy. The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook. The anti-piracy group prefers not to mention the targeted platforms but says it uses undercover monitoring of private groups to gather evidence.

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    20 hours ago

    I had a professor who wrote the book. The worst part is, it was a book guiding you through the use of Autodesk Revit. A software that has PLENTY of ressources online to learn without having to pay anything, let alone €100. I opened those books twice, and googled everything else.

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      I once had a professor use an open curriculum for a specific thing only 1 publisher makes a book for

      Like schools and professionals just buy the book for reference and it’s considered a standard field manual of sorts but there are a handful of essentially free/open compilations of the same material just not printed for sale

      First time I had a professor actually tell us he was using a slightly inferior free resource to save us money and also because it’s essentially the same