Used college books...

collegeperson12
Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:56:52 +0000

LOL the hackers are ALWAYS one step ahead. If mircosoft, the recording industry, the movie industry, and the gigantic software companies couldn’t stop them, what makes you think the puny publishing companies can? College students are the ones doing most of the digital stealing. Once textbooks hit the digital market, bye bye publishing companies. At least, bye bye outrageous profits. 100 dollars for a book?! Psshhh. Unbelieveable margins.

“And anyone who even attempts to hack a program or file will be sent to jail for a real long time.”

No they won’t. My friends at MIT are die-hard hackers and there’s no way anybody will catch them. First of all, they are too smart to be caught. Second of all, there’s no concerted effort being made to catch them. Third, even if they do get caught, they’ll just get a slap on the wrist. Textbooks should be free! (and they will be )

P.S. Thank Stanford for graduating the people who founded Google, which is leading the digital book effort. Also thank MIT for providing some much needed hacking.