There is another way to protest: attack the credibility of turn-it-in. Publish drafts of your papers all over the web where the Turn-it-in bot is sure to find t

There is another way to protest: attack the credibility of turn-it-in. Publish drafts of your papers all over the web where the Turn-it-in bot is sure to find them. Wikipedia would also be a great place to submit fragments of your papers. then submit fragments of your papers and your friends' papers directly to turn-it-in seperately before you submit your own paper. Then all your papers will come up as false positives. When the instructors confront you, produce the original papers as evidence that you were just copying yourself (which is totally allowed). As far as I know, Turn-it-in doesn't really provide the instructor with a good way of verifying the original source of a paper. So, it is difficult for instructors to use turn-it-in as evidence of plagerism when students are gaming the system like that. It is also why anybody that challenges an accusation of plagerism based on evidence from these services will always win (at least in court).