Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that turnitin's bot listens to robot.txt, or that the 'anti copyright infringement' bots do the same. Seems like it provides a v

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that turnitin's bot listens to robot.txt, or that the 'anti copyright infringement' bots do the same. Seems like it provides a very simple way for a cheating site to just thwart their entire 'system'. But hey, I guess it's one of those cases where the law and basic ethics clash a bit; with certain laws saying 'unauthorised' access to a server is illegal, then ignoring that would leave them under fire for that instead.