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Counterfeit implies a copy of something that has a defined market value. Academic papers don't. What I did is closer to a tailor creating a suit for someone fro
by sithadmin 8y ago
Counterfeit implies a copy of something that has a defined market value. Academic papers don't. What I did is closer to a tailor creating a suit for someone from scratch, rather than someone operating a sweatshop to produce fake suits from some known brand.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> Academic papers don't Did you get paid for them? If yes, they had a market value. That's the most basic definition of a market--a buyer and seller negotiating and agreeing upon a price for a good or a service. "Market" doesn't mean commodity. Hopefully you weren't writing anyone's economics papers...
- sithadmin 8y agoI'm sorry, but that's a dumb response. There's value in producing a work that passes muster as an acceptable paper to turn in for an assignment. But there isn't a pre-existing reference good that has a defined market value to counterfeit.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> there isn't a pre-existing reference good that has a defined market value to counterfeit By your rationalization, it's impossible to counterfeit a painting.
- sithadmin 8y agoCan you explain to me how you would come to that conclusion?
- mannykannot 8y agoIt seems increasingly likely that your customers got what they deserved.
- ribosometronome 8y agoCounterfeit goods are not labeled counterfeit for their labor condition origins.
- lr4444lr 8y agoIn the "marketplace" of education, the paper was the token that the student expended the mental effort of doing the work, which would be graded on its merits as a sign of what he should have done. You faked that token knowingly. Your customer did no work, and the professor would never have accepted the monetary equivalent of what he paid you for that work. Not at any multiple, if he wanted to keep his job and the university its accreditation.