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Online Term Paper Mills: Where Cheaters Often Prosper
Joanna Glasner

The history of the Internet is filled with stories about companies that tried to make a positive change in the world and ended up failing miserably. And then there are online term-paper sites. Despite inspiring nothing but scorn from educators, purveyors of collegiate prose are finding life on the dark side of online commerce quite lucrative. "They're the only ones besides casinos or porn really making money on the Internet," said Kenny Sahr, founder of SchoolSucks.com, a free homework site that makes money posting ads for fee-charging term paper providers. If his advertising customers are any indication, Sahr said, online term-paper mills are weathering the dot-com bust remarkably well. ...

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