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Re: deep linking on brickshelf (It's Illegal!)
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Date: 
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:57:16 GMT
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Todd,

It is not illegal to deep link to your own property.

Jude

In lugnet.publish, Todd Thuma writes:
> Deep Linking is Illegal!
> 
> According to recent press releases and court rulings, deep linking to a web
> site is illegal.
> http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/05/1431249.shtml?tid=95
> 
> Others have indicated that this is a major legal issue.
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/links020513.html
> and
> http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/kubiszyn-2000-05b-all.html
> 
> Of course, all of this comes after a court ruling that said 2 years ago that
> Deep Linking was legal:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35306,00.html
> 
> 
> This is why I love the Internet. It's like the wild west frontier where we are
> all walking around with our six gun in our belt (our web site) and we are all
> shooting from the hip (any activity we do with our web site). Some day some
> body may hang us "fer whaat we done" (flame us or take our web site down or
> send us a ceases and desist order). Only this wild west is a cyber wild west.
> 
> Todd
> 
> "The Deep Linking Desperado"
> 
> (TM) (C) all rights reseved, intellectual property the sole pervue of author,
> registered with trademark office and seeking all patents. Please pay $0.25 for
> every reading of the phrase and $0.30 for every utterance. I will be monitoring
> your email and and telephone conversations with satellite, filtering and other
> technical law enforcement and military equipment to collect.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> There's a joke up there somewhere. Tell me when you find it.



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Deep Linking is Illegal! According to recent press releases and court rulings, deep linking to a web site is illegal. (URL) have indicated that this is a major legal issue. (URL) course, all of this comes after a court ruling that said 2 years ago (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)

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