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Newsbooster Creates P2P Newsbrowser

Posted by timothy on from the boost-means-lift-means-steal-means-sneak dept.

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."

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  1. wtf... by iNub · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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 image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?" -- Richard Bach, Illusions
  2. When you leave the door open, people walk in by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?