Hmm...That is an interesting defense, but I think it's an increasingly likely one. Already plagiarism is being taught to teachers as something that they must make great efforts to teach their students about. After all, most students seem to find copying and pasting materials from online sources as evil as downloading free music with a peer-to-peer network.

I think this is a great thing, personally. I secretly gloat at every student who is able to outwit the information feudalists and cheat a corrupt and fundamentally flawed education administration, whether that be downloading an .mp3 or assembling a good essay out of fragments found online.

Perhaps I will find no friends among my own generation, but I think as times goes on I will find many allies and supporters among these children of the damned. Let them absorb the hatred of teachers obsessed with plagiarism; let them feel the sting of corporate lawyers punishing them for sharing their favorite music. Yes, let the corporates and their sympathizers rain their condemnation upon the seeds of the next generation, so those very seeds will sprout into strangling vines! Like blades of grass shoving and cracking through sidewalks, so will those brave children be who can survive only by destroying the old order.