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September 5, 2005 10:30 AM PDT

Software aims to catch plagiarism

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Ah playing catch up are we?
by heystoopid September 5, 2005 10:05 PM PDT
Well, actually , a number of universities, with a history of buy or bribe a degree(eg students rich family foundation trust grants(thanks grandad Preston!)), have been using this software for sometime(you'd be surprised by the large number of student's final thesis, is actually a direct copy of past graduates work with minimal changes!). Ha ha(with apoligies to nelson)
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"several years' worth of Web pages archived" - mass copyright infringement?
by hadaso September 6, 2005 11:21 AM PDT
> ...several years' worth of Web pages archived ... Isn't this mass copyright infringement? Used by companies to make money by detecting plagiarism by others?
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