Deep Linking Laws

I wonder if steve will be held responsible if we post "deep" links?

Why don't they just use session variables or something? Lazy bastards.

i was wondering too. i was just about to look ot up, but i can't for the life of me find a 'legal mumbo-jumbo' page on the shack.

Together we can completely defeat the purpose of the Internet

Mmmmmmm leep dinking

Copyright laws are there to line the pockets of the lawyers and companys while they screw the artists for all their worth.

The internet is doomed. To much freedom for these big fucking companies to take.

screw em

deep dicking?

I really don't see what the difference is in a "deep link" and the index page. Most sites have ads on ALL their pages. If a website has an interesting article, I will usually check out the main page too.

It's doubtful that this will ever affect the Shack. This seems to be a thing that people are looking to enforce selectively. Obviously that barkingdog site got some people pissed off, so the Dallas Morning News went after them. I doubt the Shack is going to piss off GameSpot so bad that it's going to tell them to stop deep-linking to its articles. Maybe Evening Reading would be vulnerable, since it probably generates enough links to non-gaming sites to get noticed, but that's about it. Most likely though, nothing will come of this.

Besides, isn't there a way to detect where a viewer came from, and if it's from another site, to automatically redirect to the front page?

I dont get it, whats deep linking?

Does this mean I won't be able to post a certain picture (using IMG SRC=) in guestbooks linked to by SA anymore? :)

can you imagine this acutally happening?

"There's an article about how corporate bullshit is threatening to ruin the internet. Check it out at www.abc.com , then scroll down a bit and click the 3rd link from the bottom, then the link on the left hand side of the next page. Unless you're reading this tomorrow, in which case you'll have to find it in the archives section somewhere..."

There are already too many laws in existance that should not be. Do we really need to add this one to the pool.

Why have hasn't anyone DEEP LINKED HWM?!?!?!

mmm....

I wonder if this would put in jeopardy those huge, hard bound indexes (indices?) filled with nothing but magazine articles, sorted by topic. It is a link, basically. It tells you what volume and issue the article is in, what page it's on, and who wrote it with a short description. In some libraries you can go even further and find out what row and shelf it is on. And if those volumes are not covered by this law, what about the CDROM version of those same books? What if, instead of the CDROM version, I have an online database version, like some libraries have?

"we still don't have a good legal analysis of that"
goddam lawyers and legal analysts. a pity that those who decide the interpretation are those who will get the most from it.
i bet 99% of websites don't care about this, and the few who do are run by lawyers.
the fact that people make a living off a creative interpretation of the law makes me sick.

half rant.

I could see a problem arrising if a site would throw up a huge banner at the top of someone else's content, but that's not normally done at least not here and the other sites that link to news items. If the Shack would display a huge "WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT DOWN THERE \/ \/ \/ IS OURS!!!" and stick a big banner ad on top of that, then yeah, they're misrepresnting themselves as the owner of the content.

The answer to all this is HTTP_REFERER. If the newspaper guys don't want someone linking in, they can stick a line of code that redirects the user to the main page of their site. If the visitor is from within their site the article would show up unmolestered. If I ran a newspaper, I wouldn't restrict deep links, but I WOULD pop-up a "BUY A SUBSCRIPTION" window, or force people to open an account to view the pages.

Of course, I loathe pop-ups like anyone else, but then again, I don't run a newspaper either ;)

I should run for congress or something. I wish I was an attorney. All these goofy computer laws being made by guys who don't know jack about computers. Makes me sort of irritated. :P

most sites will probably just add "it is ok to link to any portion of this site" to their terms of usage summary

Those lawmakers just need a serious deep linking.

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Ah, the sweet irony of this story deep linking to a story about deep linking on abcnews!

this is some wack shit.

When some people have way to much time on their hands, stupid legal mumbo jumbo like this happens.

I think this is kinda sad... linking something just shows that you find it worth noticing, it should be something the creator should be proud of...

Deep linking....

sounds dirty.

booo-urns!
boo!