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Comment: Re:Australia is lucky (Score 0, Offtopic) 308

by Fleet Admiral on Wednesday May 14 2008, @11:08PM (#23413580) Attached to: Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade

This has something to do about an article posted a while back. Laser pointers were banned because they could be directed at planes/helicopters and distract the pilots. I think that was the gist anyway...

Can Turnitin.com be forced on students? 2

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on Wednesday September 19 2007, @08:34PM

Fleet Admiral writes "I'm currently in my senior year in High School (public school system), and recently discovered that all my English essays MUST be submitted to Turnitin.com. This has basically turned into the teacher saying "Use the site or you get an F on the assignment". Do I have any rights not to be forced to use this site? Don't I have Intellectual Property Rights on my own creation, *not* to be used in a commercial, for-profit manner? I want to challenge this, but I am not sure if I would get anywhere. Should I talk to the Teacher? The Principal? Do I have any legal ground behind me? I feel like the whole student body is being bullied by the administration, and I want to do something about it!"