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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Copyright fight looms over college textbooks: Soaring costs have led to rampant sharing of textbooks online - Maya T. Prabhu, eSchool News
The high cost of college textbooks has spawned a new battleground in the fight to keep students from downloading copyright-protected materials over the internet: textbook file sharing. Several web sites allow--and, in some cases, encourage--students to make available scanned copies of textbook pages for others to download free of charge, often using the same peer-to-peer file-sharing technology that is used to swap music and movies online.
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