Then, following a post in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the publishers, “have taken steps to enforce their copyrights and keep the site from encouraging the trading of their books,” said p2pnet last month, quoting the article.

Posting. That means that emailing me asking for a list, or for particular content that was on the site, won’t get you anywhere. We have deleted all content from the site, including the database and all backups. I can’t send you anything. I have, however, received a number of more-helpful emails offering links and so forth, so I’ll be posting that list when I get the chance. As well, I’ve had no less than seven offers to restart Textbook Torrents or start a new textbook tracker. Way to go, guys! Hopefully at least some of you will manage to get new sites online. If you need any help, drop me a message and I’ll do what I can.

I hope to hear of literally dozens of text book sites where one can download a text book. The prices of these are outrageous and it seems the updates exist for only two reasons. One is to make as much money as possible by continually making minor changes. The other is to remove the used book market.

Professors across the nation are getting the word that they have less students because of the expensive process now in place used to educate. Does it have to be this way? No it doesn’t. People were educated back in the 1800’s with chalk and blackboard. I’m not saying that chalk and blackboard are the only ways nor the desired ways but expenses can be controlled depending on how badly it is wanted to be done.

At present the publishers, the schools and unis have little reason to attempt controls on prices because there are enough families saving for 20 years to pay for the education or the students are getting loans to cover the costs.

With the present financial disaster looming, some of that is fixing to change. People themselves always loose out in the competition between government and corporation borrowing as they are all clamoring for the same piece of the credit pie.

Worse with the hit on financial side, the hit on the increases in everyday living, while pay has not went up but jobs have gone elsewhere, there is less and less money to make education a possible. More and more families will see this bind, no matter how bad they wish better for their children.

So lets see some more of the Streisand effect. That which is attempted to be controlled is rejected by the average Joe. Where one place is silenced, a dozen more pop up to take its place. It’s called civil disobedience and it has a long history of being one method that the citizenry will adopt to fight what is unjust laws and poorly thought out processes sponsored by the government.

I cannot help but think of the Boston Tea Party when I hear of things like this. It’s where we have our roots at in the States and you can bet those in power don’t want to pay any sort of homage to that idea on their own watch. Since we are returning to the day of laws for the corporation and not for the people as it was originally set up for, I think those in the establishment will definitely be against this sort of change. So it is up to us to push it for all it is worth. Its the one way we tell them they screwed up between election times.

It was priceless to see this in action with the McSame campaign complaining about DMCA take downs. After all, he’s one of the ones that voted to see it come to be. Love to see these politicians getting bitten on the ass with laws of their own making. One could say it has a great sense of irony.