Without links the internet falls apart, literally.
Sites like FreeRepublic and DrudgeReport drive traffic to other sites - they should thank you!
“Without links the internet falls apart, literally.”.....
When they go, will they please take those damn pop-up ads along with them?
I always read the source. Like I always read the verses and chapter of any Bible reference to keep it all in context. Takes an enormous amount of time though.
hell ... stop it whatever ... free or not
An informed populace is a dangerous populous to the dictator
It’s not going to happen. They entire idea of hyperlinks is that the owner of the intellectual property retains complete control over it, while the link merely drives legitimate interest to the IP.
Nobody loses.
It amounts to saying, “You can go ahead and say what you want, you just can’t tell anybody else where you said it, and nobody else can tell anybody where you said it either.”
I wouldn’t put anything past the team of monkeys that currently fling poo from their bench every October, but this will kill 1A.
Seems like hype and paranoia to me. This would seem to throw the idea of “fair use” out the window. If a web page can’t quote an article, then another article can’t quote an article either. Most sites want the traffic, so most would not request that others avoid linking to them anyway. Drudge doesn’t always use the original headline, he words it his own way. So the mere idea that putting a link on your site to another site is a copyright violation is simply absurd. It would turn the whole internet into one giant copyright violation.
Exactly. I.e. he’s full of it.
What’s the difference between posting a link to an article online and printing a footnote in a book citing author, title, and publication date?