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."

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Re:taboo links

[stratjakt]

Sure, and next time your inbox fills with spam, realize you shouldnt have one, or invent your own non-pop3/smtp protocol that doesn't allow unauthorized email.

Because, as long as your using our protocol, you have to play by our rules.

Just because somethings possible doesn't make it right to do it.