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Originally Posted by crich70
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Edd discovered he could copy the words from the internet and paste them into a text message - without costing him a penny on his unlimited mobile phone package.
He sends it as one text but his victim can only receive them in 160 character chunks - meaning the 37 works of Shakespeare will buzz through in 29,305 individual texts.
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I just had to pass this one on. It's definitely a new use for the works of the immortal bard. I had no idea an ebook (at least the text file version) could be sent via text like that. I don't know if it would be practical as a method of reading a book in general or not though. I think I'll stick to the Kindle or other similar ebook devices. 
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Originally Posted by badgerboy
I don't see how this works. My mobile allows me to send >160 characters at once (although I've never tried to send anything really large) and when I receive >160 characters it recreates the single message that was sent (ditto for receive). Unlimited SMS send is typical now in most mobile contracts (and a lot of the PAYG) and it doesn't cost anything to receive SMS.
If it came through as a single (very long) SMS then deleting it is only a few key presses.
I think in the US you often pay to receive messages, and that would be a real killer for the miscreant, but there I guess there'd be some sort of legal comeback for the financial loss he suffered. I'm ignoring the financial loss of the sender at this point....
I may carry out some experiments. Apologies in advance to my long-suffering wife!
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See the highlighted text from the OP's post.
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