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Students Protest Turnitin.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-i-want-to-cheat-now dept.

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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  1. stupid post by Kludge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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?"

    What kind of shit-ass stupid post is this?
    1. Of course people download copyrighted material from the internet. Most material on the internet is copyrighted, but by placing
    on the internet, people are extending to me the right to read it.
    2. This company is storing students' papers in their database and using them without permission. This is a completely different situation.

  2. Innocent until proven guilty by Toby+The+Economist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > "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?"

    That's an awful comment, for it assumes those objecting are those plagiarizing.