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."

Comments

Re:This would be good.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, here is a translation

Deep Linking only hurts dumb companies

[Chokma]

If a site publishes an article which it does not want to be shared via linking with the whole world, they simply have to restrict access to it (login / dynamically served pages). Creating a "hard link" and then wondering why people start to go directly to your content instead of viewing your chain of ad-infested pages is simply stupid.

Of course, ripping of other peoples content and then making money of it is wrong. We had this discussion about pages which used frames to display other's content as their own. Deep Links are just more of the same - if your service or content has a real valuable, protect it. If someone publishes your creation without giving you the due credit, sue him.

But telling people to stop linking to a site is like forbidding someone to tell other people if the sky is blue. The information about where a specific kind data is stored should be free. The data itself should be free to those who have (bought) a legitimiate interest to view it.