Here's a deep link. Well not really. That's just a hyperlink to an article on Wired's website, which is like linking to a magazine article. Why in the world would a publisher oppose such a link? After all, the more links there are to an article, the more people will be directed there and the more eyes see the advertisements on the publication's page.
This article concerns a court case which has ruled it illegal to 'deep link' which is a rather vague term that describes searching through a publishers content and then providing links to it.
This kind of legislation wrecks the very purpose of the internet. If you don't want people finding your articles, then put them behind a firewall. Ridiculous.
It's really scary that people who obviously don't know anything at all about the way the Internet works are making laws restricting what we can do on the Internet. My philosophy: screw 'em. I link to whatever I want to link to. No single country owns the Internet anyway. Hopefully someday people will figure that out. The only way the Interent can be destroyed is if the people who use it give in and start actually obeying all these asinine laws.
Posted by: Lynn on July 30, 2002 6:49 PM