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Old November 10th, 2012, 11:12 AM
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I just wanted to make Wrox aware of the piracy of their books at . The worst part of this is the fact that the piracy is being performed by a professor at this school. I've attached a screen shot of the offending Windows Share and directory listing. The last name of the professor is listed as well, which is the name of the directory itself. Many of your books are being pirated on this share, by the professor. I am also sending this to all of the other publishers that are having their works pirated, as well as administrative staff here at the college.

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cstudent: Thank you very much. I have reported this to our enforcement department for appropriate contact with the school and instructor.
Also, for the privacy of those involved, I've deleted the name of the school and the link to the screen shot. I'm sure there are a lot of great instructors at the school and I wouldn't want this to reflect poorly on anyone else.

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If you want to improve the discoverability of that link and the feature that's behind it, I think simply changing its color or appearance may be a lot more effective than posting a sticky note....





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