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Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service
jazzbazzfazz writes "It seems that some students in Virginia are not happy with the anti-plagiarism service Turnitin. The company checks prose submitted by its customers for signs that it has been copied in whole or part by comparing it to a large database of works that it maintains. Trouble is, it also adds the submitted prose to its files and stores it for use by the company in future scans, which the students feel is illegal use of their copyrighted materials. I think they've got an excellent case, especially since they seem to have prepared for this eventuality: they're A-students, never been accused of plagiarism, and they formally copyrighted their papers prior to their submission to Turnitin."
Yeah, fancy that. Submit substantially the same paper to an anti-plagiarism site and the second time it comes back as plagiarized.
Wow. You're a total idiot. End to end idiot. Idiot from the inside out. In one ear and out the other ear idiot. But maybe in your world turnitin is breaking into these student's homes, creeping up the stairs and stealing their homework out from under lock and key. Unlike in our world, where the teacher or *GASP* the student, send a copy to turnitin. Turnitin accepts submissions you zero. Stupid. Not expletive stupid. Just stupid. Dumb. Ignorant. Stupid. So stupid you try and connect completely unrelated facts. You do not even know the law. Stupid enough to think that doing exactly what is expected, ie. notify the teacher of suspected plagiarism, is publication. If this was my website, I'd ban your entire /8 because you, personally, are so stupid that averaging in IQs of the other twenty-four million people on that network segment still results in an IQ less than a houseplant. You are an idiot wrapped in a moron inside a retard.
(Mods, go ahead, mod me flamebait. I'm used to it.)