Then he remembered Udocz.

His heart raced. It's just studying , he told himself. The platform already takes a cut from uploaders anyway. No one gets hurt.

The freshman laughed. "It's not stealing. It's sharing."

He copied the link to a 300-page study guide on pre-Columbian iconography. Pasted it. Pressed enter.

He closed the tab. Then reopened it. Then closed it again.

"Udocz gratis," he typed into the search engine. Then in English: "Download Udocz documents free."

Martín nodded slowly. "That's what I told myself too."

He never told anyone what he did. But three months later, when a freshman asked him how to download from Udocz for free, Martín said:

Martín stared at the blinking cursor. His anthropology paper was due in 12 hours, and his bibliography was a graveyard of broken links and half-read PDFs. He had no money for textbooks, no time for the library, and no backup plan.