We copy assignments,lab reports,project work , designs , everything. We get the job done.
Originality ? Who gives a shit.
You are just saying that intellectual property worths zero. I wonder if somebody wants to travel somewhere and to make it more easy to accomplish, he steals your car. "Who gives a shit", "he got the job done", he is on his way! You worked your ass off to buy it but that's not important.
If everybody would be behaving like this what world would we get? Soon there would be nobody to copy and all the world would be like Asia.
The good designers we do have are almost never without work, and if they are available, they find other avenues to market their services than tacky, borrowed sites.
Plus, plagiarism isn't really looked down upon here. It's even the accepted norm in certain places.
India's startup culture itself is hugely local copies of existing business models. Unless we realize this and address the fundamental issue we will be stuck in Copyland.