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[–] Vinegar 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Several reasons:

  • Once a movie is released it doesn't have a new edition come out every couple years.
  • A DVD/Bluray costs ~$25 and Joe blow can load that into their computer and use VLC to rip a .mp4 Textbooks cost very easily $150+ and are difficult to scan decently without special equiptment or destroying the book.
  • eBooks are only available for some books.
  • eBooks come riddled with DRM which is pretty hit or miss when it comes to breaking. Most of the older forms of DRM are a piece of cake to crack now, but newer formats like .azw4 are difficult / currently impossible.
  • The alternative to breaking eBook DRM is circumventing it eg. writing a script to screenshot every page, cropping and verifying quality, exporting to PDF. This sucks (I should know, I just finished uploading the darn thing to Library Genesis!)

If you're opposed to getting shafted by the texbook industry might I suggest:

If you have to buy the book yourself please help your neighbor and do everything you can to upload to any or all of these resources.

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[–] Pawn ago  (edited ago)

you can break amazon encryption but if you do only do it for books you bought please.