“If not for Wikipedia, google and copy and paste, I would not have graduated.” These were the words of a graduating student of one of the tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This statement makes obvious the fact that a large number of students (especially those in tertiary institutions) have come to depend on the Internet not as a means of obtaining relevant information and learning but as a medium that provides easy access to peoples’ intellectual properties for plagiarism which subsequently fuels the collapse of copyright laws.

Note that Google and Wikipedia do not directly dish out free information, they basically only give suggestions for websites and journals that carry traces of your search and sometimes it is herculean to find the exact topic of your research. However, students find their way around these websites and do not even bother to go over the answers before copying these answers word for word. And slowly, but with steadiness, these technologies have eaten deep into the fabric of the student populace and planted the seed of laziness and nonchalance and not many students are left with the enthusiasm to study and come up with answers to questions no matter how easy or complex those questions might be. One would have thought that the situation could not get any worse.

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