• SSTF@lemmy.world
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    5 小时前

    I don’t know how long ago that was, but the hustle has long ago counter measured pirating or second handing the books by bundling the new books with a 1 time use code to make a profile into the online part of the course where you have to take tests. You could just buy the code on its own when I was going through this, but the code was like 80% the cost of a code and book.

    They also do the thing where questions in the book will be scrambled from edition to edition, so using an older copy of a math book for example won’t track because they’ve arbitrarily changed it just enough.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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      1 小时前

      Well, fuck the professor and or the school on this case. I would have encouraged you to make an official FTC complaint. Too bad that may not be around for much longer.

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      Not that long ago, I only graduated last year. I’ve definitely noticed the tweaks-between-editions bs, so I always try to match up the isbn. I was also lucky in that I only had to deal with the online course/book bundle for general math courses, most of which I took care of in highschool and were paid for by the school, but yeah I did have to cough up one to two hundred bucks for a few of those.