unfortunately Danish politicians and law practice seems to be so dusty, that it can't seem to handle any case that couldn't have been presented 50 years back, deep linking didn't occur back in the 1950's to my knowledge, and judges, generally need education about the whole sharing idea the internet is actually about. good examples come to mind when a law-suggestion that outlawed all digitaldigital media copying without explicit permission from the author/owner, when people pointed out that they basically outlawed the internet as you wouldn't even be capable getting to a website's main page without having written authorization, (just signing onto your ISP became borderline crime), and it was hushed into obvivion. another that comes to mind is the fees we have to pay for CD-R medias, as CD-R medias are a well known medium to transfer pirated software, which basically means that people either owning their own data, or using GPL/Opensource/bsd/whichever free software are forced by the danish government to pay "piracy fines" everytime we purchase a media.
this story was regarding a news harverster site that basically harvested god-knows how many news-sites, and linked directly to interesting stories, illegal imho not, immoral? perhaps but that is probably another discussion.
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unfortunately Danish politicians and law practice
seems to be so dusty, that it can't seem to handle any case that couldn't have been presented 50 years back, deep linking didn't occur back in the 1950's to my knowledge, and judges, generally need education about the whole sharing idea the internet is actually about.
good examples come to mind when a law-suggestion that outlawed all digitaldigital media copying without explicit permission from the author/owner, when people pointed out that they basically outlawed the internet as you wouldn't even be capable getting to a website's main page without having written authorization, (just signing onto your ISP became borderline crime), and it was hushed into obvivion.
another that comes to mind is the fees we have to pay for CD-R medias, as CD-R medias are a well known medium to transfer pirated software, which basically means that people either owning their own data, or using GPL/Opensource/bsd/whichever free software are forced by the danish government to pay "piracy fines" everytime we purchase a media.
this story was regarding a news harverster site that basically harvested god-knows how many news-sites, and linked directly to interesting stories, illegal imho not, immoral? perhaps but that is probably another discussion.