> Big textbook publishers have been trying to pull this crap for years and were finally trounced in the Supreme Court when it was ruled that once a textbook is sold to someone, you don't get to dictate whether and where it can be resold.
Cue the rise of one-time-use codes in text books to register required software used for homework. I get that they need to make money, but by God they don't have to be scum while doing it.
I saw that while I was in college circa 2001; I was able to make an account with a used book and an example code shown in documentation -- but they cut it off midterm, so I stopped doing homework. :(
Cue the rise of one-time-use codes in text books to register required software used for homework. I get that they need to make money, but by God they don't have to be scum while doing it.