For most people, the only time they care about textbooks is for four to eight years of their lives. They then stop caring about education, and their piracy interests recenter on consumer media. The piracy market and leaching/seeding habits have adjusted to serve these needs.
If you want to talk about things that are hard to find, go one step beyond textbooks and try finding pirated scholarly articles. I'd rather the Internet had scientific journals for free and you had to pay to watch the latest Avengers film. Can you imagine the citations and quality on something like Wikipedia if everyone had access to peer reviewed information?
I think it actually comes down to ease conversion and also demand. There are tons of tools to convert a movie to digital format, but converting a physical text book requires a lot more work.
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For most people, the only time they care about textbooks is for four to eight years of their lives. They then stop caring about education, and their piracy interests recenter on consumer media. The piracy market and leaching/seeding habits have adjusted to serve these needs.
If you want to talk about things that are hard to find, go one step beyond textbooks and try finding pirated scholarly articles. I'd rather the Internet had scientific journals for free and you had to pay to watch the latest Avengers film. Can you imagine the citations and quality on something like Wikipedia if everyone had access to peer reviewed information?