copying of any form will be punished...you got that!! even if you're copying from the question paper or the instructions on the answer sheet.

Welcome to another stupid site that makes claim of a very noble nature but executes it's promise in the worst way. I am talking about Copyscape a website that does full text searching of your site's page and locates copies of it....so u know who to sue....It's termed as the "Website Plagiarism Search" tool....but that's where the loophole starts as below :-

1. It doesn't verify whether you're the original creator of the content.
2. It does not care to notice that you're attributing the author and providing a link back to the main story.
3. It literally searches the entire site....even the links like Login, Search, Update Journal, Reply to Comments.
4. It doesn't avoid insulting the Creative Commons license by allowng some jerks to have a CC license on their page...plagiarized content on their own page and the bowels to put up a "don't copy...this site is being watched by copyscape" banner.
5. The basic version shows just 3 results....i know one who can't afford such a stupid service won't have much moolah to sue more than 3 webmasters. However what is worse is that out of the 3...atleast 1 is often likely to have your content already removed but copyscape will still complain coz it sees the 'plagiarised' content in it's cache.
6. So you see even if you're a valid original author n stuff...Copyscape doesn't help much....it's a lame excuse of a full-text search engine.
   

If you have used Copyscape on your website....do tell if it has helped you in any substantial way other than amazing you at how it finds all the sites that have the exact same words as you do...and tell only if you've got original stuff.... Me for one copy a whole lot of content....maximum from my own mind....but a little from other sites just to blabber about what they're about n all...so it's a useless exercise. People are most welcome to link to my articles and quote them....if they don't...well i'll still be happy that people are trying to get a larger audience to read my stuff. :)

If someone has a Copysentry account (Premium version of Copyscape), please cite your experiences....Maybe some perfect hits that you had or something. I feel pity for the website and I feel sorry for misuse of the Creative Commons License... Apply with caution.

On a related note I found some good firing from a teacher at her students for plagiarizing content off the internet on the Blabberwocky. Check out the article Big Bad Rant posted on May 29, 2006... zabardast jhaar!! court cases are passé erokom dose tao abar blog e....tooo good!! :)

UPDATE: Check out the article "Is Copyscape Relevant to Bloggers?" We need some candidates from the other side...for a nice debate. i'm clear about my side. :)