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Newsbooster Creates P2P Newsbrowser
scubacuda writes "Newsbooster, the Danish company that got busted for deep-linking to newspaper stories, has created a new P2P version of its service to get around European law. Newsbooster's "Newsbrowser" software works like Kazaa - users download the software and it networks their computers together, instead of serving up files from a single server."
I can't imagine they're talking about deep-linking in the regular sense... i.e. doing what slashdot and a billion other sites out there do, link to spesific pages within a website.
IIRC, it had a lot to do with the fact that they were framing content and showing their own ads and stuff. I still think a lawsuit is rediculous, seeing as all you need to do is block certan refers and break out of frames using JS or HTTP headers.
But anyway, is it really that important to 'pirate' links or whatever? Seems rediculous. Glad I don't live in Europe I guess. Erm, not that US laws are that great. We'll have to form our own nation. Call it technopia or something. Yup, that's the ticket.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I must've been asleep. Hyperlinks to a publicly accessible file are illegal?
Me: "Hey random friend, you should check out this book at the library. It's not in their index, but it's on the shelf so nobody really knows about it. It's really informative."
Librarian: "No, that book isn't in our index yet. It might be on the shelf for public consumption, but you can't tell people it's there before we do. *calls police*"
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The problem I have with these anti-deep link policies is that there are multiple ways to prevent a deep link using stupid server tricks.
Why are these people turning to the lawyers to make deep links illegal, why they could just turn to their IT guys to make deep links impossible?