ScoreTop.com down, fined $2.3M
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- Warning! – says the header currently on scoretop.com.
“ScoreTop.com shut down
“Courts Give Graduate Management Admission Council® Domain Name Ownership, Hard Drive in Copyright Infringement Suit.”
Follow the link on the post and, “The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has issued a default judgment awarding the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) damages in the amount of $2.3 million, attorneys’ fees, court costs, and other relief in a copyright infringement case brought by GMAC against Lei Shi and other operators of the U.S.-based web site known as Scoretop.com,” says GMAT.
“As part of the judgment, Scoretop representatives are prohibited from further infringements of GMAC’s intellectual property rights.”
Now, “Students who used the site, ScoreTop.com, to try to improve their scores on the Graduate Management Admission Test may regret it,” says the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus, going on:
“The council has seized a hard drive from a server used to run the Web site, and says it will notify business schools of anyone who violated its testing policies by using the site. The council, which administers the admission test, will also cancel those students’ scores.
“A series of threats against cheaters followed,” to wit >>>
GMAC® takes cheating very seriously, especially attempts to obtain access to live test questions in advance of an exam. We also take very seriously any unauthorized distribution of our copyrighted GMAT® preparation materials. GMAC® constantly patrols the Internet for:
Sites that claim to sell or distribute purportedly “real” GMAT® questions.
Unauthorized copies of our official study guides and supplements, GMATPrep® software, and other GMAC® products.
If you are caught disclosing, accessing, or using “real” GMAT® questions:
Your GMAT® scores will be cancelled.
You will not be allowed to take the GMAT® exam again.
Business schools will be notified.
You may be subject to a civil lawsuit or criminal prosecution.
You are responsible for making sure your preparation materials don’t violate our intellectual property rights.In other words:
Do not purchase, request, or share materials that claim to be “real” GMAT® questions in any form.
Do not download GMATPrep® software from anywhere but www.mba.com, where authorized GMATPrep® software is available for free.
Do not request or distribute pirated software or books such as the GMAT® Paper Tests, GMAT FocusTM or the Official GMAT® Guide.
The GMAT exam, owned and administered by GMAC, “was designed for candidates for the MBA degree and is used as part of the admissions process by more than 4,000 graduate management education programs worldwide,” it says, adding:
“The test uses a computer adaptive format that is generally considered one of the most secure available. Each candidate receives different questions based on his or her response to the previous question.
“Larry Rudner, GMAC vice president for research and development, says that accessing the limited content available from sites such as Scoretop does not guarantee a higher score on the GMAT: ‘Even if a site is illegally able to obtain some ‘real’ questions, it is extremely unlikely that a test taker will see the same questions on the live exam – a computer adaptive test has a bank of thousands of questions’.”
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GMAT – Courts Give Graduate Management Admission Council Domain Name Ownership, Hard Drive in Copyright Infringement Suit, June 20, 2008
Wired Campus – Web Site That Gave Illicit GMAT Study Tips Is Hit With Huge Fine, June 24, 2008
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June 26th, 2008 at 5:24 am
‘Even if a site is illegally able to obtain some ‘real’ questions, it is extremely unlikely that a test taker will see the same questions on the live exam – a computer adaptive test has a bank of thousands of questions’.
Taking this into consideration, this damages the GMAC how, exactly?
July 6th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Sounds like GMAC webnt after scoretop.com hard to send a message. If these sites got more popular they might eat into the sale by GMAC of their bogus test materials.
It’s a sad commentary on our society when so much cheating has to take place to get into a particular school so you can get a corporate job that will keep you forever in the rat race. As for me I did my obligatory 4 years for a bachelors and got out to become an entrepreneur. How many MBA’s did Bear Stearns have again?!?!