Been around for ages (Score 1)

I am a fourth year CS undergrad at Tech and they have had this system in place at least since I took these classes as a freshman, and I know that it was there even before that. A friend of mine got caught one time because he let someone look at his old code, and the idiots copied it and changed variable names. Some people never learn... I am curious as to why its getting all this media attention (this is the third media report I've seen on it) as its been at Tech in some incarnation for at least 4 years.