The mobile operators (Sprint, Nextel,...) have much more control over what a wireless web user receives than an ISP does over a 'wired' web user.
An interesting precedent will be set in the near future. The precedent will revolve around the question of whether or not users will tolerate unsolicited ads from the wireless operators.
Perhaps a free ad-supported model will evolve along side a pay ad-free model (similar to current ISP organization). It will be interesting to watch it play out.
Let me make a (not so) bold statment and say that deep linking is OK, but only down to the page level. It should not be kosher to link to individual elements within a page. For example, linking directly to an image or directly to an audio/video file. This gives the linker all the credit and the linked all the cost.
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The mobile operators (Sprint, Nextel, ...) have much more control over what a wireless web user receives than an ISP does over a 'wired' web user.
An interesting precedent will be set in the near future. The precedent will revolve around the question of whether or not users will tolerate unsolicited ads from the wireless operators.
Perhaps a free ad-supported model will evolve along side a pay ad-free model (similar to current ISP organization). It will be interesting to watch it play out.
Let me make a (not so) bold statment and say that deep linking is OK, but only down to the page level. It should not be kosher to link to individual elements within a page. For example, linking directly to an image or directly to an audio/video file. This gives the linker all the credit and the linked all the cost.