is it legal if you cheat off yourself?

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2003, at 06:35PM by Eric Richardson

So today I was strolling through my access log, and noticed for the first time a referrer from turnitin.com. I had sort of been curious to see when they indexed the papers on my site. A couple of my professors require that we submit our papers through them, and I have to say that I have very mixed opinions on whether that's a good thing or not. Largely I guess it depends on the algorithms they're using, and those we'll never know. I'm just waiting for the first time I post a paper on my site at the same time I turn it in, and their site flags me for copying from myself. That would make my day.