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Originally Posted by pwalker8
That's an also. You are correct that book sellers would tear off the cover and toss the rest in the trash. Some people (and some dishonest book sellers) would then get the rest of the book out of the trash. That's more fraud than piracy. In third world countries, printers would simply print a bunch of copies without giving the author a dime. I'm not sure of the precise mechanics of it, I just remember Pournelle putting it in one of his columns.
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Yep, at the school where I worked a Chinese grad student from Taiwan had a bunch of US computer science books that had been bootlegged and reprinted. The paper was very flimsy, like what's in a phone book.