Based on the website his professor(s) are definitely making side money forcing students to pay to download their notes.
https://www.docsity.com/en/store/sell
No idea if that is legal for them to do or not but it is shady as hell.
https://lemmy.ml/c/opensignups
Per bot: !opensignups@lemmy.ml
The torrents are to preserve the archive as a whole and not individual books or documents. The entire archive is ~263TB’s which is far more storage than most people have in their home. So instead they broke it up into bits that were more palatable for most that when combined make the whole again. Like a huge .rar from back in the day.
If the corporate contract changes then the expectation of investors would have to change as well. Changing the corporate contract is fundamental to changing nearly everything. What’s even better is that no one can argue it’s “evil socialism/communism” because it just isn’t but it still affects sweeping positive changes.
If I remember correctly it was something as follows"
TPB’s tactic was to tell them to essentially fuck off we’re not in your country nor are we hosting anything more than a search engine. At least till they finally got dragged into court in their country where they got some prison time and fines and moved to a .to domain in lieu of .org.
Everything on a streaming service that attempts to limit password sharing. They made traveling with a streaming stick a completely unnecessary faff. Everytime I go to use a service they make me reverify the device multiple times a day. So, fuck you asshole now I’ll stream your content for other sites and stop paying you!
So they still need another 75yrs or so. I’ll set a reminder.