Students Protest Turnitin.com

StupidSexyFlanders writes "The Washington Post ran a story about students protesting their school's use of anti-plagiarism site Turnitin.com, which checks papers they've written against a database of 22 million other papers. From the article: "Members of the new Committee for Students' Rights said they do not cheat or condone cheating. But they object to Turnitin's automatically adding their essays to the massive database, calling it an infringement of intellectual property rights." Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"

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Let's try this on the **AA folks

[multisync]

How about requiring movie producers to submit their scripts, to make sure it's not the same old recycled plots and 70s tv shows, with a soundtrack filled with remakes of pop "classics" and thinly disguised rip-offs they hope the audience is too young to catch on to?

Re:my school

[couch_potato]

As someone (yes I live in backward Oklahoma, however Norman is somewhat educated) who was constantly in trouble for being different and difficult due to my overwhelming boredom with the monotonous teaching techniques used.

Perhaps you should try hard to pay attention, as that is a sentence fragment.

If you are the grammar police, consider me Internal Affairs. You are correct, that is a fragment. Good work, officer. However, he was speaking in the past tense, and you suggest that he should 'try hard to pay attention'. Pay attention to what? I believe you meant to say, "Perhaps you should have tried harder to pay attention [in English class]".

You are suspended for three weeks, with pay.

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