- "a plagiarism charge that could have been leveled at anyone we know via the power of text mining" I don't see the problem? If they've plagiarized stuff and p

- "a plagiarism charge that could have been leveled at anyone we know via the power of text mining" I don't see the problem? If they've plagiarized stuff and published it, I think it's fair game to run algorithms on large public datasets and find every instance of this. Why would anyone oppose that? (Wasn't there a thread on HN about a project similar to this?)