The New Student Excuse

Taken from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/05/corrupted

Corrupted-Files.com offers a service — recently noted by several academic bloggers who have expressed concern — that sells students (for only $3.95, soon to go up to $5.95) intentionally corrupted files. Why buy a corrupted file? Here’s what the site says: “Step 1: After purchasing a file, rename the file e.g. Mike_Final-Paper. Step 2: E-mail the file to your professor along with your ‘here’s my assignment’ e-mail. Step 3: It will take your professor several hours if not days to notice your file is ‘unfortunately’ corrupted. Use the time this website just bought you wisely and finish that paper!!!”

10+ years ago when I was doing homework we’d always blame not doing it on ‘dodgy floppy disks’ or ‘forgetting to save’.   I can’t say I wouldn’t have found this quite tempting…

I wonder how much, if any, UK business they’ve had?