Originally Posted by dkatz1

I've been a professor of music for 31 years. I often give students an assignment to write a short piece of music, and provide the written music (analzyed) and a recording of it. The recordings are generally of poor quality, wiht one or two instruments, or from various software sequences. It's not a recording project, it's supposed to show they know the classroom material about chord progressions and melodies.
And I put one one, and go: WOW! Where did he get the great band! The magnificent soudning chorir. The string section? And in a few seconds I realized: I own the album that he stole that from! His handwrittn music only vaugely resembled how the music went.
It was the most blatnetly stupid attempt to pass off someone else's work as your own I've ever encountered. I've come across other things that I strogly suspected of the their other music student friends had written for them, but trying to pass off a massive production, by someone who's won grammies?