henfredemars 120 points a year ago

Reminds me of a professor who linked a pirate copy of the text book in his syllabus and warned several times do not attempt to use these sources because doing so is a violation of copyright law! Please purchase the book!

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philpo 64 points a year ago

I know someone who did that with his own book. Why? The publisher fucked him over in terms of pay. He even corrected a mistake in the original one.

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logicbomb 36 points a year ago

As a counter to your story, I had one professor who required his students to purchase his own locally produced textbook, which had a new version with different exercises every semester or year, and I guess he made good money off of that because everybody thought he was an asshole for doing it, but he did it anyways.

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despoticruin 21 points a year ago

Oh, name and shame for that shit.

Richard Burke at Casper College does this and doesn't even use the book. Costed over $150.

Garbage practice that should be criminal fraud.

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Freeposity 0 points 14 days ago

Costed over $150.

Cost

Sorry about being pedantic. It's a sickness.

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philpo 19 points a year ago

Yeah, happily enough that wouldn't fly here and is actually considered a felony and surely cost someone tenure.

Not that they won't try to find ways around it (and surely some do), but if it's too obvious it lands them in hot water fast.

There was a law professor who lost both his tenure and law licence for it at the other university in the town I studied while I was there.

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CmdrShepard49 11 points a year ago

I had a professor do this too but the book only cost like $5 so it seemed fine compared to the loose-leaf math book I had to buy for $300

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Freeposity 1 point 14 days ago

Public universities should use public domain books for their courses and grad students should be required to add to the public domain teaching materials. Undergrads should also be required to contribute to coursework for k-12.

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scrubbles 28 points a year ago

I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.

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lena 45 points a year ago

Then Brits can use TOR 😎

If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.

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somerandomperson 12 points a year ago

Hell yeah.

It's very hard to block TOR, because it's an hydra. Block one method, multiple other methods take its place.

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DarkDarkHouse 7 points a year ago

Bonus prize if it makes sites accept Tor users as legitimate.

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NikolaTeslasPigeon 3 points a year ago

I use TOR because over on Reddit I got unjustly permabanned. It works great! I rarely use reddit but there just happens to be one community that has some helpful information that I'll likely need to follow for the next few months. So TOR has been great for that!

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somerandomperson 4 points a year ago

Reddit is bad

It had potential, but it has gone to waste.

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Buelldozer 40 points a year ago

Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.

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herrvogel 13 points a year ago

They wouldn't block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That's very easily doable.

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GreenKnight23 15 points a year ago

hey Alexa, deploy an ec2 instance of openvpn with a socks proxy and email me the connection info.

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abs_mess 3 points a year ago

what is "dumb club" ? will vmess prevent authoritarians from packet sniffing?

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rikudou 23 points a year ago

Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don't know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.

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LilB0kChoy 12 points a year ago

That’d quickly become a game of whac-a-mole.

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mere 4 points 10 months ago

I'm an idiot, the image was broken so I opened it in a new tab and was extremely confused as to why I was being 'blocked' even with a vpn active

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artyom 0 points a year ago

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rikudou 13 points a year ago

Source? Cause mine (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50 aka the fucking law) doesn't say anything like that.

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tyler 8 points a year ago

Not who you’re responding to but techlinked called out that it’s illegal as well and showed the legislation text in their video. But if you’re not implementing the ID check in the first place then mentioning vpns doesn’t matter at all. I can’t even get your link to load.

Edit: timestamp 1:50 https://youtu.be/uGJHzPHOFXM

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rikudou 4 points a year ago

I don't believe guidelines are above the actual law.

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tyler 7 points a year ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

According to Ofcom, platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks.

The government told the BBC under the Online Safety Act, it will be illegal for platforms to do this.

Ofcom is the regulator so I’m guessing they read the law a little more closely than you. And BBC states that the government explicitly told them it would be illegal.

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flamingos 3 points a year ago

Section 4.37 of Ofcom's Guidance on Highly Effective Age Assurance for Part 3 Services:

In addition, service providers should not publish content on their service that directs or encourages UK users to circumvent the age assurance process or the access controls, for example by providing information about or links to a virtual private network (VPN) which may be used by children to circumvent the relevant processes.

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then_three_more 8 points a year ago

Should, not must. Like the highway code should rules and must rules.

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rikudou 7 points a year ago

That's guidance, not law.

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flamingos 3 points a year ago

Ofcom is the designated regulator and has the power of enforcement. The law doesn't define what age verification means, only that it much be 'highly effective' (Section 12 (6)). It is therefore left to Ofcom to set out in its Code of Practices (Section 41 (3)) what 'highly effective age verification' means, which is what this guidance is. This isn't Ofcom being nice, this is them telling you how they're going to enforce the law.

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artyom -1 points a year ago

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rikudou 2 points a year ago

Well, nope.

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