"Deep Linking" Controversy Renewed in Texas

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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Rights of redistribution

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I'll defend to the death, the rights of a content creator, to control how s/he chooses to redistribute their content.

If you're opposed to putting limits on how something can be redistributed. Then I assume you have no problem with someone violating GPL, and redistributing Linux as a sealed, sold product. With no source attached.