I was looking for a certain textbook for my class and then I saw that the place I normally go was out. How can that be? It’s not a physical thing you’re giving me, it’s 1s and 0s. I sure hope there’s a way I can blame the capitalists for this.
I was looking for a certain textbook for my class and then I saw that the place I normally go was out. How can that be? It’s not a physical thing you’re giving me, it’s 1s and 0s. I sure hope there’s a way I can blame the capitalists for this.
It’s artificial scarcity. There’s no reason for it to be out of stock. As you said, it’s just a file on their servers, they’re just preventing you from having access to it. I think it might be time to visit libgen.