[GATOR NAVY]

Sites should allow deep linking just on the premise that any hit on their pages is better than nothing. I refuse to go into any site that requires registration to view a story, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

[backhoe]

Sites should allow deep linking just on the premise that any hit on their pages is better than nothing. I refuse to go into any site that requires registration to view a story, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

Same here.

For whatever it's worth, I've maintained that once you could digitize content, and shoot it out over a wire, copyright was effectively dead.

[Ex-Dem]

Know exactly what you mean. I've just about had it with having to fill out a survey every single time I want to see a WP article or having to log in just to see a NYT article. WP should consider themselves fortunate that their survey doesn't contain a name/e-mail/text form, or they'd be seeing obscenities every time I submitted it.

[azhenfud]

"I refuse to go into any site that requires registration to view a story, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that."

Same here. How many newspapers place their products on newsstands hoping the public passersby would see a headline and stop to buy?

[sweetliberty]

"I refuse to go into any site that requires registration to view a story, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that."

Same here. Who needs the aggravation....not to mention the added spam? I seem to get along just fine with what IS allowed to be posted in full on FR. Besides, the links are corrupt after awhile anyway, so to maintain any kind of connection to the text of an article, there needs to be a place where it can be readily accessed. FR provides such a place, complete with the discussion/debate generated by the articles. That is an invaluable tool in my opinion and one which makes FR unique.

I suspect that liberals would often rather that much information fade into oblivion. Truth and informed debate are their enemies, but as far as theft is concerned, I can't see it. News is news and this forum is public and non-commercial. After all, one can go to a public library and access virtually any newspaper article from any paper that has ever been printed on microfiche without commercial benefit to the paper in question and take the content to a discussion group. In essence, there is no difference.