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Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked (arstechnica.com)

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And usually, there was an awesome professor that would "accidentally" make a free e-version of the textbook available to the class. God I appreciated the hell outta them.

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I had professors that instead of a text book had you buy a “reader” from a copy shop. It was just a big binder of photocopied pages from text books, academic journals and various published papers. I still hold on to a few of them as they were kinda like mix tapes of various ideas and info, way more interesting than a text book.

The local copy shops were bigger centers of piracy than Napster at the time.