Pirating textbooks for an inexperienced sailor (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm fairly new to piracy overall, but I feel like I understand the basics of how to avoid my ISP and such. A family member who's in college texted me the other day asking how she could pirate textbooks and I realized I'd never thought about it. Any tips for pirating textbooks? Safe sites?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Site: libgen[dot]is for probably 99% of all books with a pdf that exists online. However this site often gets blackholed by most institution's DNS/firewalls because they don't want you using it obviously. Can bypass using a VPN or TORbrowser.

Generally when I do any pirate stuff via browser only I just use TORbrowser. Yes it's not endpoint secure but it just needs to be enough so my ISP doesn't complain. The safest option is always to purchase a trusted VPN which will usually get you through any institutional firewall as it's an "insulated pipe" that encrypts all traffic inside it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, torbrowser should get you around it and i know libgen has a tor mirror download link on books

If you don’t want to use tor and still want to download (tor can be slow) you can also change your dns server if your wifi blocks it through dns. No need for a vpn

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Get a good VPN Proton or Mullvad if possible. My goto website for text book is Library Genesis. You can download epub, or pdf of particular textbook..

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Libgen

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Get a library car and casually go take photos of each page.

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