And you thought teenagers' excuses were bad, part 2

from NYTimes, via SlashDot:

Helene Hegemann's first book ... what's interesting now is that she has been caught plagiarizing many passages in the book. Amazingly, she has not denied it, but instead claims there is nothing wrong with it. She claims that she is part of a new generation that has grown up with mixing and sampling in all media, including music and art, and this is legitimate in modern culture. 

Bullshit. "Sampling?" Please.