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Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

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419 points hn_acker | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.426s | source
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bastard_op ◴[21 Nov 24 01:17 UTC] No.42200020[source]▶
Some 28 years ago I taught myself everything could get/find from graphic design, basic development, server administration, etc, all downloading commercial warez over dial-up with AOL and Usenet. I didn't need a class or subscriptions, with every software and book I could have wanted, I had the best lab in the world with any software available I could want with piracy.

Fast forward 30 years now it's mostly the same as it was, only open source replaced all the commercial, and little has changed that I can still get the rest too. You can pay as much or little as you want in life if you know how.

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1. petra ◴[21 Nov 24 08:42 UTC] No.42202320[source]▶
A lot of great software today is SAAS. They seem to have solved the problem.
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2. freefaler ◴[21 Nov 24 13:17 UTC] No.42204033[source]▶
That's one of the reasons, to curb piracy. However the bigger is that they need a recurring revenue, because programmers need to be fed while they're working on a release and bringing a new one from the wild is expensive and takes time to get meaningful code from them.