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July 01, 2008, 03:09 PM ET
Fighting a Textbook-Piracy Site
Textbook Torrents lists more than 5,000 textbooks for free download, employing the same peer-to-peer technology used to illegally download music and movie files. One of its slogans: “Because you can’t download beer.” The site is one of several where copyrighted books are available for unauthorized download.
Publishers say that online textbook publishing is on the rise, as detailed in a free article today in The Chronicle. Publishers and publishing groups now regularly scan the Web looking for book download sites and demanding the files be removed. After The Chronicle started asking publishers about Textbook Torrents last week, Pearson Education sent a request to the site to remove 78 listings of its books. Site administrators quickly complied, and according to an announcement on the site posted today, users will soon have to sign an agreement to follow certain guidelines in order to use the site. —Jeffrey R. Young
Categories: Campus-Piracy, Legal-Troubles
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