"Professor Lou Bloomfield designed the program to scan papers for shared phrases of at least six words. When he later checked the papers by hand, Bloomfield found entire term papers that had been lifted from someone else. A program is made for professors to catch duplicated phrases in term papers has triggered one of the biggest plagiarism investigations ever at the University of Virginia, with 122 students or recent graduates under suspicion." -5/15 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/05/10/tech/main290674.shtml
"Technology Yields Plagiarism Bust" - Charlottesville, Virginia , May 10, 2001.
A lot of students were caught rewriting and copying posts from websites and not citing their source of information. I cited the website, the date I read and copied it and I gave full credit to the person for wrote it.
Here is a video about plagiarism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5z7MNP4SU
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