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I don't think anything can be done about peer-to-peer filesharing or IRC, but websites where people upload texts could be pressured into checking for plagiarized content using the same method TurnItIn uses to check for plagiarized term papers in academia. It would require the publishers to submit their content for reference to the validation site, however. |
And who would run the validation site and populate it with the data required to do the validation?
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This method could possibly also be used for newsgroups, with a cancelbot, though I think it wouldn't be very effective.
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Won't happen. The "distributed star" topology of news servers makes it impossible to validate content that way. And while there are "moderated" groups that require approval for posting, forging it is trivial. I read one group where you have to do that to post, and the fact that you
can do so is considered evidence of your right to post there. (It's a tech group, aimed at sysadmins.)
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But I think more people know how to get stuff from websites than P2P, IRC, and newsgroups combined.
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I think you're quite right.
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Dennis