Slashdot Mirror
Restrictive Linking Policies & The Net
Masem writes "News.com reports on a new site set up by Prof. David Sorkin of the John Marshall Law School that points out web sites with restrictive linking policies, entitled Don't Link To Us. Sorkin set up the site as a way to enlighten net users on the impact of such policies in the aftermath of past and pending court cases over deep linking policies. An owner of one site on the list, law.com, was suprised to discover that their site has a restrictive linking policy, and already plans to implement changes to it."
law.com
Fleur de Sel
Thats really beautiful: a list of people who don't want to be linked to, and each entry is a working link to them. I wonder how many letters they get saying "Please do not link to us from your Do not link to us page"?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
And oh yes,
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
The famous website The Register prohibits linking to its stories... Seems to be only from their own ISP, but I have no time to investigate further.
Link to the Kuro5hin article
Shhhh! The lawyers don't want site owners to know that there's an inexpensive technical way to defeat deep linking!
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
"I wonder if they really meant the 21st century, or are just really insulting those sites"
Well, first things first, you know.
Dear sir,
As a Lawer I wish to point out that there are NO problems that can't be solved with out recause to the Law.
If you wish to refute this aligation I'll see you in court.
Yours etc.
Lord Rune
Sue, Gribit & Rune Aturnies at Law
Wouldn't it be nice if schools got all the money they wanted and the army had to hold jumble sales for guns
And next week, we talk about people who hang signs in their window, but don't want people looking at them.
You mean people look at signs? If I come to the store on a day that it's closed, you can bet if I don't lock the door there will be more people come in than on a day I'm open.
Me, "Didn't you see the sign? It says we're closed."
Clueless person, "What sign?"
Reminds me of when I was a kid. I put a giant water balloon on the roof with a small block of wood keeping it from rolling. I tied a rope to the block of wood and let it hang off of the roof. A small sign read "DO NOT pull on rope", you can guess what happend next.
Man, holloween was fun back then...
No off course not. Your analogy is flawed.
You meant: "Requiring people to get permission before citing the relevant pagenumbers in sources in bibliographies."
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean you're not allowed to read the site?
As for robots, not only is there no robots.txt, but the home page contains this meta tag:
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
When I saw that I laughed so loud it scared the neighbours!
hi, welcome to my comment. if you are reading this comment, then you must have web surfed through slashdot to get to it. web surfing is a strange, complex, newfangled technical concept that you may not understand, because i certainly don't understand it myself. that's why i publish my comments to this weird web surfing place to begin with. see?
;-P
the point is i don't allow people to web surf to my comments. i only explicitly allow people to view my comments who contact me first. that is why i post comments on slashdot in the first place. do you get it?! good, because i don't. but i have the right to dictate to you how it works even though i don't understand it. ok?! ok?!
now that you have read this comment, please email me and get permission first before you read this comment in the first place! understand?! no???!!! DO I HAVE TO SUE YOU NOW?!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Dear ftobin:
I represent the web site Example.com, the premier web site used on the internet for examples in books and articles. My client's site is refernced in over 50,000 publications and web sites, more than 10 times as many as their nearest competitor, ForInstance.com.
Through your slashdot posting, you have posted a circumvention device (the "Device") which defeats the patent-pending content protections in the Example.com web site.
We ask that you please cease and desist your infringing post at once. Or we'll sue you into a fine powder.
Yours,
LawyerDrone #456/23