I was told once in a book shop that it's legal to copy a whole book if it's out of print. In this case even if only the German translation wasn't available anymore.

Seems to be also covered by US law

Q. Can I make a copy of a book that is out of print and unavailable?

While the book is still sold by resellers, I'm pretty sure that copying the CD in this case is still legal.

Anyway, those CDs mostly just covered the code printed in the book, to avoid typing.

Your "shadier places of the Internet" will most likely offer ebook version, and the code can be copy/pasted directly.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: Book; PERL 2nd Edition Black Book by LanX
in thread Book; PERL 2nd Edition Black Book by jmClifford

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