An article by Anna Jo Bratton, Associated Press, describes...

An article by Anna Jo Bratton, Associated Press, describes well the dangers of my topic: piracy. In the article, Bratton reported a recent legal matter that impacted Sarah Barg, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore, and her colleges. The RIAA, an anti-piracy and plagiarism society had suspected that many students at the university had been illegally downloading media content. Burg received an email concerning the matter, but she was ignorant and considered it a fluke or scam. The email suggested that she had supposedly downloaded a whopping 381 songs. The letter continued to say that a lawsuit was possible, but they offered here an opportunity to avoid that circumstance. They requested of her $3,000, or $7.87 per song. Sarah, still†¦show more content†¦Christians uphold the belief that theft is sinful, but those of corrupt beliefs aren’t included in those certain guidelines. This is why plagiarism is greatly debated on. Plagiarism is mainly said to be classified by the â€Å"failure to give credit† (pg. 203). This may be true if the act was unintentional, but that is not always the case. Plagiarism is classified into four categories: Quotation, Paraphrase, Idea, and Translation. Quotation Plagiarism is the most common and the most detected form. This type occurs when a person forgets to include â€Å"† surrounding any content that is directly taken from another source. For example: â€Å"An act or instance of using or closely imitation the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as one’s own, as not crediting the original author.† (Dictionary.com). The above information is correctly formatted with quotations. Quotations are placed at the beginning and end of the information. This sentence written with quotation plagiarism is written like this: â€Å"An act or instance of using or closely imitation the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as one’s own, as not crediting the original author.† (Dictionary.com). The text was not formatted with quotations; therefore, since the information was not presented as being taken directly