While reading about the documentation of the Ruby vcr gem, I found
that one of their sponsors is Cheap Writing Services. What do they
do? Do they write tech documentation? No, they write college term
papers for hire. Wikipedia has an article on that. Ah, yes, essay
mill.
20190925/https://github.com/vcr/vcr
20190925/https://cheapwritingservice.com/
20190925/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_mill
The debate about essay mills. Often times they are perfectly legal from a legal standpoint, and they are only unethical from an academic standpoint if the customer of the service submits the resulting work for a grade. The main exception of the legal/ethical divide is when academics is mandated as part of a body of law. Sometimes customers of the service will merely request an outline or request that their paper be proofread by the service, and all the writing in the submitted work is still done by the student themself.