The part of reading rent-a-coder that always depresses me is the rampant contract cheating. It makes me wish that by facilitating that activity and taking a piece of the action, sites like rent-a-coder incurred civil liability to the colleges and universities whose assignments are being bartered.
I'm not quite sure how to work that - maybe sue them as some sort of accessory to fraud, though that would probably first require the university charging cheating students with fraud.
Well, university assignments are at least doable. For an experienced developer easily so, which makes them quite profitable. The profit goes down the drain if you need to explain to the student how your code works (if he knew, he wouldn't want you to code it for him).
I'm not quite sure how to work that - maybe sue them as some sort of accessory to fraud, though that would probably first require the university charging cheating students with fraud.