"Deep Linking" Controversy Renewed in Texas

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 1, 2002 @06:02AM from the god-i-thought-this-was-over-with dept.

DaDigz writes "Wired News is reporting on a cease and desist letter sent to an independant news site by Belo, corporate parent of The Dallas Morning News, forbidding them from linking to individual stories within the site. They claim that the author can only link to the site's homepage, and attempting to link to stories within the site violates their copyright." Next week Time Magazine will require you to read pages 1-36 before reading the article you want on page 37. Don't complain, it's their copyright ;)

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Does this mean the end of google? by eaddict · 2002-05-01 06:08 · Score: 4, Redundant

Don't all the search engines 'deep link'? I guess the new search engines will only point to home pages. What a crock!

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