Patent Law

Turn-it-off?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Zack: They deserved it, man. Anyone who'd done, like, programming 101 could get around those detectors [turnitin]. Me and my roommate once wrote an app that we were hoping might take off -- we called it Turnitoff. It was cool. You ran your paper through Turnitoff and it would insert invisible jammers to make Turnitin jump to the next sentence whenever it came across a plagiarized passage.

Full post as published by IPBiz on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).