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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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.
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
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.
I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.
Then Brits can use TOR 😎
If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.
Hell yeah.
It's very hard to block TOR, because it's an hydra. Block one method, multiple other methods take its place.
Bonus prize if it makes sites accept Tor users as legitimate.
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!
Reddit is bad
It had potential, but it has gone to waste.
Reddit has done things in it's lifespan, and is dying of financeer-cancer, like about half egregors and autonomous zones that come and go. The smaller ones usually die of generational trauma.
It all goes to compost and echos though, not all to the void.
I the mistake of telling asking a mod not to be condescending.
Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.
They wouldn't block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That's very easily doable.
hey Alexa, deploy an ec2 instance of openvpn with a socks proxy and email me the connection info.
what is "dumb club" ? will vmess prevent authoritarians from packet sniffing?
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.