[NextUserName]

>Cheating in academia is exactly the same as piracy: It is a service problem. If classes taught useful information/skills in a non-boring way, cheating would be significantly reduced.

This is true, but only for certain subjects. I largely agree with you when it comes to many Comp-Sci courses. Differential Equations, not so much.

[icelancer]

You can't stop 100% of the cheaters, but if your differential equations professor speaks little English and lectures from the book without caring one iota about presentation, then that professor will have higher rates of cheaters. It's about controlling the variable that can be controlled.