Work Less, Make More. That's what it's All About. That's exactly why every individual whatsoever economically benefits from the strict abolition of imaginary property.
it's when you factor in the cost of extraction that the resources becomes scarce.
Right. And the sole scarcity in extracting resources in an infinite universe is Time. Would the Human Species be Better Off, or Worse Off, if they had to Manually Pump Plants to Produce Oxygen from which to Breathe? Increased competition to develop greater value from scarce resources, commonly called "Technological Innovation", will only reduce the supply and demand prices which can be extracted from the market clearing price. If suddenly ten people can eat from the same acre of farming cultivation whereas previously only one could subsist, well I guess some people are going to have more time to do other shit, like produce art, or think, or whatever economic activity whatsoever.
You would be surprised how many people would think more clearly if the constant apprehension about sustaining themselves and their children in the future were lifted from them.
They might spend more time with their children, and thus, such restrictions from such developments are Anti-Family.
Don't Tell Her you Love Her, unless She Pays You First. Don't Pay Him, unless He Tells You He Loves You First. An Exercise in Paradox? An Examination of Epistemological Contradictions? Solved by the Elucidation of the Concept of Trade. That which is Received is Valued *MORE* than That which is Given away in Exchange. Person 1 trades aways Good 'A' for Person 2's Good 'B', and VICE VERSA, for the Exact Same Reason. How does Any Trade Whatsoever Occur? Pay ME 1 Billion Dollars to Solve one of the most unsolved Economic Questions of Our Lifetime! How can 'A' be greater than 'B' for Person 1, and also *simultaneously*, 'B' be greater than 'A' for Person 2? Surely nothing of Value would otherwise be Produced...
Not to pooh pooh The Boston P2P Party, but I'm afraid this Era's Participants are wider spread, and causing more "so-called" economic damage, without even really trying, Yet.
I'm sorry, but the method by which you obtained that Prime Rib Number is Patented... by the Public Domain, forwards and backwards, inside and out, and round and round. Let the Politicians throw themselves out the door all by themselves. We need our Pearl Harbor's and Fort Sumner's too. At my Signal, Unleash Hell.
Inventor of Internet says "one giant step...", er "hello world"
Allow or Cancel?
Yeah, they "could" try to do it, but they'd lose; they'd lose public approval ratings, they'd money, and they'd lose court cases, not necessarily in that order, politicians sold seperately. I just love it when a plan comes together, er finances itself.
So you are saying that when ISPs or the government copy and analyze files, when they deep packet inspect, by copying every single bit of data into their programs, they are "stealing"? Interesting. Any thoughts on how they should be punished for such infractions? How would be hiring an infinite number of interns to copy and analyze, to deep packet inspect, every single file ever created, solely to look for any copyright infringement violations of our own copyrighted material, be any different than what ISPs or the government would theoretically be doing? Are we not allowed to Outsource the Legal Discovery Process? I'm afraid I'm going to have to Object to such arbitrary violations of the rights of individuals to defend themselves by looking for examples of Prior Art which would invalidate any claims of copyright being used against said individuals.
Like if some News Organization were to quote this post without Permission, or take a sexy picture of me walking into a Court, I could just issue a "magical" cease and desist, a stand down, er take down, notice, and they would just:magically" Obey? Interesting. How am I supposed to know that this post isn't somehow "magically" included in some theoretically possible file named everything_ever_made_by_Walt_Disney.tor? I do believe it would be a deprivation of my Civil Right to Defend my Copyrights by denying me of the Ability to gather all the paid and/or voluntary help I can get in this endeavor. And I'm afraid that just *necessitate* open file sharing as constitutionally necessary for the purposes the civil right to legal discovery regarding the defense of legitimately determining what the evidence is or is not.
Yes, it is actually kind of sad that to communicate we must all copy the words of the languages we all use, we must all copy '1's and '0's to send and receive that information through computer networks. If only we could invent some more words like... hmmm... "pwn".
Who says you have to spoof P2P to look like other files? Why not spoof other files to look like P2P files? Bandwidth Party like it's 1999KB/sec! I like my emails to sing themselves in a.mp3 loop, to better get my points across. I call it Operation Little Red Riding Hood.
It mentioned the Secret Service and counterfeiting. And tracing the original printer surely would forensically confirm that threatening letters were created from a specific machine I do believe I also heard a xerox tech confirm the unique tracking dots when my company signed off on a new Xerox Workcenter 7665.
Here's a better link with the EFF talking on this subject:
Some colour laser printers secretly hide tiny tracking dots in every document, says the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The mini-markers are ostensibly to help identify counterfeiters but, "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," says EFF staff technologist Seth David Schoen, going on:
This was 2004, 2005. I'd guess most new printers and copiers sold since have a high market penetration containing this technology.
Within that article is a link directly to the EFF, showing the marking tracking technology:
This guide is part of the Machine Identification Code Technology project. It explains how to read the date, time, and printer serial number from forensic tracking codes in a Xerox DocuColor color laser printout.
What would you guess is the profession mobility of the offspring of professors and academic administrators? A higher nepotism rate than any other profession in the world? Of one of, if not thee most liberal institution in the world, I would bet the percentage of seats occupied by the offspring of previous generations of academics is higher than for any other such broad profession in the world. Pretty much every student colleague I encountered who wanted to be a future professor had one or two parents who were professors. Work less, make more. They aren't dummies.
How does that compare to say professions like medicine, law, or engineering?
Bingo. This is why open source educational information will eventually be generally of far superior quality that can never be beaten on price. Hell, the field of Economics is being reshaped in real time due to this subject alone. Information, incentives, scarcity, and the impact of the internet (of which I am the world's foremost economics expert:P). There will not only be better quality video snippets, but numerous moderated and feedback question and answers with different perspectives and levels of detail.
The methodological breakthroughs and efficiencies humanity is on the brink of are utterly staggering. Academia is as much threatened as the RIAA, MPAA, and college textbook industry. Those working from hard cover published textbooks will be at a *severe* competitive disadvantage compared to people like you. Academia is full of absolutely horrid over priced poor quality boring exhibitions and demonstrations of knowledge.
People can only "cheat" to the extent that the educational system itself is ill constructed, presently heavily biased toward measuring short term memory retention.
People are complaining because they think the prices should be cheaper, not because the price of books is preventing them from accessing education.
Ha. How much would it cost to have a copy of every book ever published? How about a copy of every scroll destroyed at the Library of Alexandria?
Education from K-PhD can now be done world-wide for FREE. Any marginal positive value cost will only cause there to be less people educated, more ignorance to exist in the world, and a slower rate of technological and artistic advancement.
How about the cost of hearing every lecture ever delivered by every professor at every University? Every example explained by every T.A.? Every brilliant question asked by every student? There is massive massive artificial scarcity ignorance.
And it is nothing less than an utter barbaric scandal BETRAYAL of the foundational mission purposes of every single one of these Universities. I can't imagine the betrayal of every academic represented in statue form at every University would feel if they were around to witness it. Not to mention the donor foundational grants given by individuals to make the world a better place. One day we will charge the whole lot of these buffoons from the Administration to the Professors, with TREASON, with CORRUPTION far worse than even the ancient Greeks held Socrates in contempt for. That day is coming quicker than they realize; it was only a few short years ago such intricate discussions of copyright were a teeny tiny minority few. Today, it's one of the biggest issues all over the internet.
How would scribes eat if people ceased chiseling onto stone tablets?
If somebody has something important or interesting to say, they will say it, or be ignored.
How would writers of ye olde yore have focused on what they had to say (rather than also simultaneously having to chisel their own thoughts out by hand) if it weren't for the division of labor employing those scribes?
Haha, I just torrented 5 gb of books from PirateBay.
That makes you a smarter more economical student.
The horrible thing is that, adapting to the e-distribution business model would mean things like ebrary, which is a complete abomination (and until the last time I checked, a Windows only abomination).
Crude baby steps to what's coming down the pipeline.
There are some students already who have certain reading disabilities that are already allowed to have digital versions of copyrighted materials, so that they can enlarge the print to see it easier, or so that the computer can translates the written words into oral words. The Americans with Disabilities Act ensures that such students have legal access to such shape shifting of copyrighted textbook material. And Universities may even be required to deliver those services (though I think most if not at all would be voluntarily accommodating).
But there's no reason the entire cost of the printing and shipping cannot be eliminated from offering students the possibility of purchasing digital versions. Of course the publishers don't want to do that because then those versions will be hosted on torrent P2P sites and sneaker net copied by multiple students in the same class from flash drive to flash drive.
Publishing hard paper versions is and will ever be a more niche industry. Publishing in general is offering ZERO economic value to the spreading of information. It's economic reality.
Professors and Universities too will eventually be competing just to be heard. There is a whole overloaded ton of juicy redundant fat to be cut from the entire educational system, world-wide, from K-PhD. We are talking about monstrous orders of scale of magnitude, such as anywhere from 75%-90% of the money currently completely wasted on an inefficient off-line redundant educational system. How ridiculous is it for 30 students to listen to a professor talk in a room in a building when BILLIONS could simultaneously do so!
Every printer and copier (manufactured by the big name manufacturers you have heard of) in the world has unique finger printed water marking that identify its serial number, and where it was sold. Thus if a criminal printed off a threatening letter and mailed it to somebody, that letter can be identified to have been printed from a specific copier or printer. Perfect for setting up a stakeout of somebody printing leaflets from a specific Kinkos shop in a specific city on a specific street. I don't know if the intel companies paid for that technology, but they certainly convinced the manufacturers to implement that technology.
So perhaps cease and desist and take down notices can be sent to publishers who inclusively include public domain knowledge into their circumscribed copyright claims. They are making a private claim upon a public "property". So issue mandatory recalls for copyright claimed Physics textbooks which contain the formula p=mv, for instance, force them to issue refunds to all who have purchased the text, fine them the maximum statutory copyright infringement penalties, and force them to remove the infringing material. Thus, they cannot make circumscribed inclusive claims upon public domain knowledge, as they are currently doing by slapping an all encompassing "copyrighted" claim upon material they do not rightfully own.
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
Nothing there. Completely nonprofit noncommercial and completely for educational purposes.
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
Uh, what is it's nature? It covets? It's nature is that it is infinitely reproducible information, itself containing many aspects of public domain non copyrighted knowledge. It only seems fair that one be able to enlist an infinite team of interns to comb the file to make sure there are not any copyright infringements (or instances of plagiarism, or instances of incorrect attribution) in the file. Anything less is a civil and criminal violation of free speech and the Legal Discovery process.
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
They had better damn well not be included any single instances of public domain non copyrighted ideas or expressions in their circumscribed copyright claim. If a physics textbook contains the formula E=mc^2, there is certainly no valid copyright claim on that expression. So add those up and SUBTRACT from the "substantiality of the portion...as a whole."
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
If they are no longer selling last semesters edition, they have no valid claim to be seeking profit from last semesters edition. Thus, we will always be one edition behind on their tails. And Professors already copy the entirety of many copyrighted works for the entire class, such as newspaper articles.
Plus not to mention we can divide the torrent into as many different sections, chapters, diagrams, and/or words as we desire. Infinitely divisible + infinitely re-combine-able = FTW. So download chapter 1 today, chapter 2 tomorrow, etc, however you want, whenever you want.
Yarrgh! Bring on the countersuits of illegal spying, unlicensed gathering of evidence, negligent non identification of specific individuals, harassment and stalking of students. They'll just be financing some free tuition plus graduation house gifts until they give up, utterly defeated, utterly destroyed.
I'm just so trigger happy itching to see the legal court cases that smash the publishers of frequently changing textbook editions. If they refuse to sell older editions, there is a legitimate argumentative claim that they have abandoned the intellectual property claims of those older editions. If they are not actively trying to make a profit on older textbook editions, then you couldn't ask for a better caricature of a Scrooge to burn in effigy.
Textbook publishers are going to take some crushing public relations blows. This is going to expose vast swathes of the innards of the inherent contradictory structure of copyright law. It's utterly laughable to watch some academics advocate the forced artificial scarcity of knowledge. Maybe we will see some nice collateral damage occurring in some prestigious institutions of higher education, who by their tacit consent are violating their mission charters to advance knowledge. If they aren't careful, they will expose the very churn and burn business nature of the paper degree pushing Union Cards they are bestowing upon us peasantry.
These are exciting, exciting, almost Revolutionary, times! If copyright law is eliminated, humanity will be freed from the chains of artificial scarcity ignorance. The textbook account of the elimination of imaginary property is being written in our time. Hahaha. I just love it!
Bravo! You are spot on. It's time to force professors and universities to turn to open source information sources, especially so for public domain knowledge.
Unfortunately for the publishers, copyright does not apply to material that is duplicated for educational and research purposes, and such textbook torrents are 100% legal. Hoist up the countersuits. Prepare the public relations broadsides.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Which parts of the Newtonian physics principles will the textbook publishers try to claim is copyrighted? Prepare to slash those sections out with the tips of your swords, figuratively and literally. It's Booty Time!
Textbook torrents are specifically for the purpose of education!
Title 17 of the United States Code
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use40
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Yarrgh! Victory in sites, Captain. Yo ho ho!
Once this is easily demonstrated, music will be as easily demonstrated next. Knowledge Is Power!
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Work Less, Make More. That's what it's All About. That's exactly why every individual whatsoever economically benefits from the strict abolition of imaginary property.
it's when you factor in the cost of extraction that the resources becomes scarce.
Right. And the sole scarcity in extracting resources in an infinite universe is Time. Would the Human Species be Better Off, or Worse Off, if they had to Manually Pump Plants to Produce Oxygen from which to Breathe? Increased competition to develop greater value from scarce resources, commonly called "Technological Innovation", will only reduce the supply and demand prices which can be extracted from the market clearing price. If suddenly ten people can eat from the same acre of farming cultivation whereas previously only one could subsist, well I guess some people are going to have more time to do other shit, like produce art, or think, or whatever economic activity whatsoever.
You would be surprised how many people would think more clearly if the constant apprehension about sustaining themselves and their children in the future were lifted from them.
They might spend more time with their children, and thus, such restrictions from such developments are Anti-Family.
Don't Tell Her you Love Her, unless She Pays You First. Don't Pay Him, unless He Tells You He Loves You First. An Exercise in Paradox? An Examination of Epistemological Contradictions? Solved by the Elucidation of the Concept of Trade. That which is Received is Valued *MORE* than That which is Given away in Exchange. Person 1 trades aways Good 'A' for Person 2's Good 'B', and VICE VERSA, for the Exact Same Reason. How does Any Trade Whatsoever Occur? Pay ME 1 Billion Dollars to Solve one of the most unsolved Economic Questions of Our Lifetime! How can 'A' be greater than 'B' for Person 1, and also *simultaneously*, 'B' be greater than 'A' for Person 2? Surely nothing of Value would otherwise be Produced ...
Well then how do you measure yourself against other file sharers? By height?
I prefer to download my files solely from the uni-, monogamously, intelligently designed .fbi extension, you insensitive clod.
We didn't Hear, See, Touch, Sense, or Otherwise_Feel(TM), that. Or did We?
Not to pooh pooh The Boston P2P Party, but I'm afraid this Era's Participants are wider spread, and causing more "so-called" economic damage, without even really trying, Yet.
I'm sorry, but the method by which you obtained that Prime Rib Number is Patented ... by the Public Domain, forwards and backwards, inside and out, and round and round. Let the Politicians throw themselves out the door all by themselves. We need our Pearl Harbor's and Fort Sumner's too. At my Signal, Unleash Hell.
Inventor of Internet says "one giant step ...", er "hello world"
Allow or Cancel?
Yeah, they "could" try to do it, but they'd lose; they'd lose public approval ratings, they'd money, and they'd lose court cases, not necessarily in that order, politicians sold seperately. I just love it when a plan comes together, er finances itself.
So you are saying that when ISPs or the government copy and analyze files, when they deep packet inspect, by copying every single bit of data into their programs, they are "stealing"? Interesting. Any thoughts on how they should be punished for such infractions? How would be hiring an infinite number of interns to copy and analyze, to deep packet inspect, every single file ever created, solely to look for any copyright infringement violations of our own copyrighted material, be any different than what ISPs or the government would theoretically be doing? Are we not allowed to Outsource the Legal Discovery Process? I'm afraid I'm going to have to Object to such arbitrary violations of the rights of individuals to defend themselves by looking for examples of Prior Art which would invalidate any claims of copyright being used against said individuals.
Like if some News Organization were to quote this post without Permission, or take a sexy picture of me walking into a Court, I could just issue a "magical" cease and desist, a stand down, er take down, notice, and they would just :magically" Obey? Interesting. How am I supposed to know that this post isn't somehow "magically" included in some theoretically possible file named everything_ever_made_by_Walt_Disney.tor? I do believe it would be a deprivation of my Civil Right to Defend my Copyrights by denying me of the Ability to gather all the paid and/or voluntary help I can get in this endeavor. And I'm afraid that just *necessitate* open file sharing as constitutionally necessary for the purposes the civil right to legal discovery regarding the defense of legitimately determining what the evidence is or is not.
Yes, it is actually kind of sad that to communicate we must all copy the words of the languages we all use, we must all copy '1's and '0's to send and receive that information through computer networks. If only we could invent some more words like ... hmmm ... "pwn".
Who says you have to spoof P2P to look like other files? Why not spoof other files to look like P2P files? Bandwidth Party like it's 1999KB/sec! I like my emails to sing themselves in a .mp3 loop, to better get my points across. I call it Operation Little Red Riding Hood.
It mentioned the Secret Service and counterfeiting. And tracing the original printer surely would forensically confirm that threatening letters were created from a specific machine I do believe I also heard a xerox tech confirm the unique tracking dots when my company signed off on a new Xerox Workcenter 7665.
Here's a better link with the EFF talking on this subject:
http://p2pnet.net/story/6620
Some colour laser printers secretly hide tiny tracking dots in every document, says the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The mini-markers are ostensibly to help identify counterfeiters but, "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," says EFF staff technologist Seth David Schoen, going on:
This was 2004, 2005. I'd guess most new printers and copiers sold since have a high market penetration containing this technology.
Within that article is a link directly to the EFF, showing the marking tracking technology:
http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This guide is part of the Machine Identification Code Technology project. It explains how to read the date, time, and printer serial number from forensic tracking codes in a Xerox DocuColor color laser printout.
Happy reading. ^_^
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2004/041011.Delp.forensics.html
Was also a previous slashdot story
http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/10/14/1742224.shtml
What would you guess is the profession mobility of the offspring of professors and academic administrators? A higher nepotism rate than any other profession in the world? Of one of, if not thee most liberal institution in the world, I would bet the percentage of seats occupied by the offspring of previous generations of academics is higher than for any other such broad profession in the world. Pretty much every student colleague I encountered who wanted to be a future professor had one or two parents who were professors. Work less, make more. They aren't dummies.
How does that compare to say professions like medicine, law, or engineering?
Bingo. This is why open source educational information will eventually be generally of far superior quality that can never be beaten on price. Hell, the field of Economics is being reshaped in real time due to this subject alone. Information, incentives, scarcity, and the impact of the internet (of which I am the world's foremost economics expert :P). There will not only be better quality video snippets, but numerous moderated and feedback question and answers with different perspectives and levels of detail.
The methodological breakthroughs and efficiencies humanity is on the brink of are utterly staggering. Academia is as much threatened as the RIAA, MPAA, and college textbook industry. Those working from hard cover published textbooks will be at a *severe* competitive disadvantage compared to people like you. Academia is full of absolutely horrid over priced poor quality boring exhibitions and demonstrations of knowledge.
People can only "cheat" to the extent that the educational system itself is ill constructed, presently heavily biased toward measuring short term memory retention.
People are complaining because they think the prices should be cheaper, not because the price of books is preventing them from accessing education.
Ha. How much would it cost to have a copy of every book ever published? How about a copy of every scroll destroyed at the Library of Alexandria?
Education from K-PhD can now be done world-wide for FREE. Any marginal positive value cost will only cause there to be less people educated, more ignorance to exist in the world, and a slower rate of technological and artistic advancement.
How about the cost of hearing every lecture ever delivered by every professor at every University? Every example explained by every T.A.? Every brilliant question asked by every student? There is massive massive artificial scarcity ignorance.
And it is nothing less than an utter barbaric scandal BETRAYAL of the foundational mission purposes of every single one of these Universities. I can't imagine the betrayal of every academic represented in statue form at every University would feel if they were around to witness it. Not to mention the donor foundational grants given by individuals to make the world a better place. One day we will charge the whole lot of these buffoons from the Administration to the Professors, with TREASON, with CORRUPTION far worse than even the ancient Greeks held Socrates in contempt for. That day is coming quicker than they realize; it was only a few short years ago such intricate discussions of copyright were a teeny tiny minority few. Today, it's one of the biggest issues all over the internet.
how would writers eat if not by the royalties?
How would scribes eat if people ceased chiseling onto stone tablets?
If somebody has something important or interesting to say, they will say it, or be ignored.
How would writers of ye olde yore have focused on what they had to say (rather than also simultaneously having to chisel their own thoughts out by hand) if it weren't for the division of labor employing those scribes?
Haha, I just torrented 5 gb of books from PirateBay.
That makes you a smarter more economical student.
The horrible thing is that, adapting to the e-distribution business model would mean things like ebrary, which is a complete abomination (and until the last time I checked, a Windows only abomination).
Crude baby steps to what's coming down the pipeline.
There are some students already who have certain reading disabilities that are already allowed to have digital versions of copyrighted materials, so that they can enlarge the print to see it easier, or so that the computer can translates the written words into oral words. The Americans with Disabilities Act ensures that such students have legal access to such shape shifting of copyrighted textbook material. And Universities may even be required to deliver those services (though I think most if not at all would be voluntarily accommodating).
But there's no reason the entire cost of the printing and shipping cannot be eliminated from offering students the possibility of purchasing digital versions. Of course the publishers don't want to do that because then those versions will be hosted on torrent P2P sites and sneaker net copied by multiple students in the same class from flash drive to flash drive.
Publishing hard paper versions is and will ever be a more niche industry. Publishing in general is offering ZERO economic value to the spreading of information. It's economic reality.
Professors and Universities too will eventually be competing just to be heard. There is a whole overloaded ton of juicy redundant fat to be cut from the entire educational system, world-wide, from K-PhD. We are talking about monstrous orders of scale of magnitude, such as anywhere from 75%-90% of the money currently completely wasted on an inefficient off-line redundant educational system. How ridiculous is it for 30 students to listen to a professor talk in a room in a building when BILLIONS could simultaneously do so!
Every printer and copier (manufactured by the big name manufacturers you have heard of) in the world has unique finger printed water marking that identify its serial number, and where it was sold. Thus if a criminal printed off a threatening letter and mailed it to somebody, that letter can be identified to have been printed from a specific copier or printer. Perfect for setting up a stakeout of somebody printing leaflets from a specific Kinkos shop in a specific city on a specific street. I don't know if the intel companies paid for that technology, but they certainly convinced the manufacturers to implement that technology.
So perhaps cease and desist and take down notices can be sent to publishers who inclusively include public domain knowledge into their circumscribed copyright claims. They are making a private claim upon a public "property". So issue mandatory recalls for copyright claimed Physics textbooks which contain the formula p=mv, for instance, force them to issue refunds to all who have purchased the text, fine them the maximum statutory copyright infringement penalties, and force them to remove the infringing material. Thus, they cannot make circumscribed inclusive claims upon public domain knowledge, as they are currently doing by slapping an all encompassing "copyrighted" claim upon material they do not rightfully own.
10% X 10 = 100%. Ch1.tor, Ch2.tor, ... Ch10.tor, you don't have to be interested in the entirety of the work at the same time.
Sure. Here they are.
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
Nothing there. Completely nonprofit noncommercial and completely for educational purposes.
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
Uh, what is it's nature? It covets? It's nature is that it is infinitely reproducible information, itself containing many aspects of public domain non copyrighted knowledge. It only seems fair that one be able to enlist an infinite team of interns to comb the file to make sure there are not any copyright infringements (or instances of plagiarism, or instances of incorrect attribution) in the file. Anything less is a civil and criminal violation of free speech and the Legal Discovery process.
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
They had better damn well not be included any single instances of public domain non copyrighted ideas or expressions in their circumscribed copyright claim. If a physics textbook contains the formula E=mc^2, there is certainly no valid copyright claim on that expression. So add those up and SUBTRACT from the "substantiality of the portion...as a whole."
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
If they are no longer selling last semesters edition, they have no valid claim to be seeking profit from last semesters edition. Thus, we will always be one edition behind on their tails. And Professors already copy the entirety of many copyrighted works for the entire class, such as newspaper articles.
Plus not to mention we can divide the torrent into as many different sections, chapters, diagrams, and/or words as we desire. Infinitely divisible + infinitely re-combine-able = FTW. So download chapter 1 today, chapter 2 tomorrow, etc, however you want, whenever you want.
Yarrgh! Bring on the countersuits of illegal spying, unlicensed gathering of evidence, negligent non identification of specific individuals, harassment and stalking of students. They'll just be financing some free tuition plus graduation house gifts until they give up, utterly defeated, utterly destroyed.
Satisfied?
I'm just so trigger happy itching to see the legal court cases that smash the publishers of frequently changing textbook editions. If they refuse to sell older editions, there is a legitimate argumentative claim that they have abandoned the intellectual property claims of those older editions. If they are not actively trying to make a profit on older textbook editions, then you couldn't ask for a better caricature of a Scrooge to burn in effigy.
Textbook publishers are going to take some crushing public relations blows. This is going to expose vast swathes of the innards of the inherent contradictory structure of copyright law. It's utterly laughable to watch some academics advocate the forced artificial scarcity of knowledge. Maybe we will see some nice collateral damage occurring in some prestigious institutions of higher education, who by their tacit consent are violating their mission charters to advance knowledge. If they aren't careful, they will expose the very churn and burn business nature of the paper degree pushing Union Cards they are bestowing upon us peasantry.
These are exciting, exciting, almost Revolutionary, times! If copyright law is eliminated, humanity will be freed from the chains of artificial scarcity ignorance. The textbook account of the elimination of imaginary property is being written in our time. Hahaha. I just love it!
Bravo! You are spot on. It's time to force professors and universities to turn to open source information sources, especially so for public domain knowledge.
Unfortunately for the publishers, copyright does not apply to material that is duplicated for educational and research purposes, and such textbook torrents are 100% legal. Hoist up the countersuits. Prepare the public relations broadsides.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use40
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Which parts of the Newtonian physics principles will the textbook publishers try to claim is copyrighted? Prepare to slash those sections out with the tips of your swords, figuratively and literally. It's Booty Time!
Textbook torrents are specifically for the purpose of education!
Title 17 of the United States Code
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use40
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Yarrgh! Victory in sites, Captain. Yo ho ho!
Once this is easily demonstrated, music will be as easily demonstrated next. Knowledge Is Power!