
has faced copyright infringement/ theft of intellectual property accusations for allowing a professor’s work (test questions) to be essentially stolen when posted.

Not connected to your university, but have delved into this issue. My suspicion level is high unless proven otherwise. It doesn't make sense to me that they're going to go through the effort to call you out without doing anything about it. Every year policy 71 violations get compiled and not once is the punishment "just a warning", even for things much less serious. Huh? You don't get "just a warning" if you're caught cheating. Is this referring to a final exam? And "just a warning".

What is this for? A test, an assignment, an exam? The term ended a while ago now, many grades are already out. You "got an email from UW" is a highly vague statement. The most likely explanation is, they looked at the answer you submitted, and they looked at the chegg one, and found that you blatantly copied.Īnd what's even more likely is that you're trolling unless proven otherwise. And chegg would be stupid to hand over information easily, if it wants paying customers to stay with them. The University of Waterloo is not a government authority that can issue a warrant for user data from a completely separate company just by asking nicely.

If you actually stop to think about that, none of those explanations make any sense. It's not IP addresses, it's not credit card info, it's not high-tech reverse hacking, it's none of that.
