Yeah, nope. Having now read the article, it is clear that it IS a resource readily available. Further, while he says that the publishers are referring it to their legal departments for whatever action they can take, he never says the resource is not available to students. I'm not surprised by the article when it says these banks are available on line. At a minimum it would not be hard for anyone in the academic arena to get a copy. So, the "legal action" will be no action. People always make stupid legal threats to freak people out. The real issue is that this lazy professor relied upon the publisher to come up with questions. Someone got hold of the bank and he is pissed because now he had to do some real work. Give me a break. If I was a student I'd love to see what action they tried to bring on this. I don't see any violation, unless they signed some agreement at the end of class saying that they understood they were taking a class for a lazy ass and agreed not to look at any bank of test questions. Otherwise, tell him to kiss off.
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Yeah, nope. Having now read the article, it is clear that it IS a resource readily available. Further, while he says that the publishers are referring it to their legal departments for whatever action they can take, he never says the resource is not available to students. I'm not surprised by the article when it says these banks are available on line. At a minimum it would not be hard for anyone in the academic arena to get a copy. So, the "legal action" will be no action. People always make stupid legal threats to freak people out. The real issue is that this lazy professor relied upon the publisher to come up with questions. Someone got hold of the bank and he is pissed because now he had to do some real work. Give me a break. If I was a student I'd love to see what action they tried to bring on this. I don't see any violation, unless they signed some agreement at the end of class saying that they understood they were taking a class for a lazy ass and agreed not to look at any bank of test questions. Otherwise, tell him to kiss off.