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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

That's how it was when I went through 30 years ago. When my kid was going it was all like the other poster said. Used books could be free, but you still had to buy the full price textbook code to do the work for the class. Complete scam.