Today I came across a website called essay coursework whilst searching on Google.

The website claims, 'Soon to be the largest essay database on the web'.

There is no information on the website regarding ownership and quite a few of the links just reload to the index page.

I was a bit suspicious therefore I did a bit more research and checked out the whois, the site is registered by someone called, 'Jennifer'

Having done a google search on the name 'Jennifer' I found that she is connected to a company called All answers Limited, A.K.A uk essays.

See the following links:

academicknowledge.com/ethics.php
legalresearcher.co.uk/jen.html
ukessays.com/meet.php
articlesbase.com/college-and-university-articles/custom-essays-cheating-or-study-aids-664157.

The worrying thing here is that UKessays is a very large and well known 'custom' essay writing site in the UK, they write thousands of essays each year for students.

They also own a website called, scanmyessay.com a.k.a. Viper, which is a free tool used by University students to scan their essays for plagiarism. The website was voted as the worst system for detecting plagiarism on the internet by a University professor, who specialises in Plagiarism. See the article below:

plagiat.htw-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/PlagiarismDetectionTest2010-final.pdf

So the fact that Uk essays is offering a pre written essay database type website for students is very worrying. Where are they getting these thousands of Essays from? The students who are unwittingly uploading them via viper? The thousands of customers who bought the essays via uk essays and the many other sites that they own?

Is it ethical or legal for this company to resell essays that other people have uploaded for free to check their work, or who bought them in confidence on a website that claims that it never resells its work, another big concern is whether this is copyright infringement?