Wired Campus Blog has two new posts:

• Pay for Plagiarism. The NYT has followed up on their recent paper mill investigation. Turns out that some of the papers are highly plagiarized, full of text straight off the Internet.
• Stopping Cheats Ain't Cheap. The University of Kansas recently dropped Turnitin because
  

  it paid $6,000 several years ago for its first year of Turnitin, but the annual expenditure for the service has since ballooned to $22,000.

Remember when Microsoft announced their plan to buy a virus protection company? Made sense to me. They would have inside information that would allow their virus scan service to block the many security holes in their flawed operating system architecture. Perhaps Turnitin might do the same and buy some paper mills.

Even though it's not illegal to sell papers on the Internet, that would be bad for business, though, just like not storing student papers would affect their bottom line ;-)