[glorgau]

The time for this kind of plaigarism is rapidly coming to an end. Once the text of books are available for indexing in modern search engines, then it will be almost impossible for the copiers to hide.

A lot of acedemic careers are going to go up in smoke. Not that there is any wrong with that.

[GladesGuru]

"A lot of acedemic careers are going to go up in smoke

Let 'em flip burgers!"'Tis a far, far better job than I have ever held" - at least as regards honesty and productivity.

[eno_]

Amazon is going to do searchable text on their site. I bet there will be a few weeks, when it first comes on line, that somone will do a kewl tool for plagarism detection, and find a whole herd of frauds.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I agree that plagiarism will be easer to spot - but not forgery. Imagine the CBS/Rathergate issue if the time of the memos had been post 1992. At some point - all documents, with the ubiquity of Microsoft Word and standard computer based fonts - will look alike. Forging a 2002 memo should be infinitely easier than a 1972 document from an electromechanical device like at typewriter.