The academic space when met with the issue of file-sharing has raised a lot of questions regarding both moral aspects and particular circumstances sprung in a special context Students share textbooks, and all sort of related materials through Facebook’s new Group feature, for example, but now thing are really getting complicated. Why? Because a new patent has been granted to Joseph Hengry Vogel – an economics professor – who’s decided to stop this behavior among students to share or lend textbooks online or offline. Fact is that when we talk about getting your hands on a college degree, we talk about business. The main idea to stop the impulse of sharing course-books is to discourage students by lowering their grades, which seems quite fair, does it? “Professors are increasingly turning a blind eye when students appear in class with photocopied pages

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Teacher’s Patent Chokes Textbook Sharing (On and Offline)