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Saturday, July 06, 2002

Denmark Case on Linking Counter to Internet Principles

via [Ernie the Attorney]

Dave Winer's thoughts on deep linking decision from Denmark

"In Denmark today, a judge rules against a search engine that respects the robots.txt convention, and stops it from "deep linking" into sites run by the Danish newspaper association. All these court cases are as stupid as dirt. Several good technical preventatives exist...[so] save the lawyer's fees. ...  We know for sure that when a company goes to court for "deep linking" that they aren't talking to, or listening to, their technical people. BTW, deep linking is an oxymoron. There's only one kind of linking on the Web. Why would you ever point to the home page of a news oriented site." via [Scripting News]

Amen Brother!  The law shouldn't help those who don't want to help themselves.  Of course, the site operators may not know about the technical solution.  One thing's for sure: most lawyers have zero incentive to figure it out on the client's behalf because it deprives them of the opportunity to file a lawsuit that, while not frivolous, won't win any Academy Awards either.  But lawyers file suits to make money, not to collect awards.

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