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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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