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In one word, it's piracy. Torrents are the number one way in which copyrighted material is distributed among people who haven't paid for it. No matter if it's movies, TV shows, or games, if it was ripped off, you can get it on a torrent site. Let's take a closer look at torrents and how they work.
Generally, in terms of faculty, the majority held the belief that pirating textbooks is unethical. “I don’t consider it ethical, but I understand why it’s done. The price of textbooks is generally outrageous, and not because of the content — at least in my field.
Torrenting is a method of rapidly downloading files. Instead of downloading the file directly from one computer, you have a special program which contacts many computers with that file to get it from all of them at once.
Torrenting is a term used to describe downloading and uploading files via the BitTorrent network. Rather than downloading files from a centralized server, torrents involve...
The Ethics of Textbook Piracy. Who really suffers? Recently had a friend ask if I knew where he could find some 'free' ebooks versions of textbooks he had already purchased (to put on his new ipad). This didn't seem like such an unfair request, but it got me thinking.
The students’ voices are articulate on matters of principle, plagiarism, piracy and access to textbooks and other academic resources. They raise critical issues for new models of publishing, for...
Instead of downloading files to a central server, torrenting involves downloading files from other users’ devices on the network. Conversely, users upload files from their own devices for other users to download. Torrenting is the most popular form of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing.