You Can't Link Here

An anonymous reader writes "Last year several news sources reported about the website dontlink.com from David Sorkin, associate professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. His website fights 'stupid linking policies' that attempt to impose restrictions on other sites that link to them. Now a German law student joined the fight against linking restrictions and starts getting media attention in Germany. His list of stupid German linking policies can be found at the website Links & Law. Contrary to the model of dontlink.com, the German site refrains from linking to companies that prohibit linking without their consent. The site only states the URL of the websites with the linking policies. The page with the linking policies is in German, but the rest of the website is in English and covers many legal aspects of linking."

Comments

Maybe there just scared

[ifreakshow]

These companies probably don't allow linking because they are afraid of a slashdotting.

The last few sentences of his webpage...

[miltimj]

On occasion a web site will modify its linking policy in response to public ridicule. Perhaps their appearance in Don't Link to Us! will help encourage some of these sites to move forward into the 20th century. (emphasis mine)

But perhaps they've changed their policies in the last 100 years??...

Re:Principles of Un-enforceable Rules

[cioxx]

Ahahahaha.

Chico, California: Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine.

Re:Principles of Un-enforceable Rules

[minesweeper]

And now it's statewide. A new law just went into effect as of the first of the year:

From now on, anyone caught using nuclear weapons in California must give a sample to the state's DNA registry of criminals. No longer will nuclear holocaust get in the way of unsolved crimes.