Is linking illegal?

June 16, 2000 6:55 AM

Is linking illegal? New York Times article about DeCSS linkage fiasco involving 2600. If linking is illegal, the Web is SOL. This is insane.
posted by elgoose (7 comments total)

Counterpoint: The judge should order the links removed.
posted by Jeremy Bowers at 8:08 AM on June 16, 2000

John Young's cryptome has an amazing repository of documents from this case, including transcripts, depositions, etc.
posted by tingley at 8:13 AM on June 16, 2000

Notice that the Times article links not only to 2600's homepage, but directly to their DeCSS mirror page. Nice.
posted by sad_otter at 8:18 AM on June 16, 2000

I guess maybe the judge did order the links removed:

Sorry! There was an error: Can't evaluate the
expression because the name "adrMemberInfo"
hasn't been defined.

The error was detected by Frontier 6.2b18 in mainResponder.respond.
Webmaster: [e-mail]. Time: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:46:50
GMT.
posted by baylink at 8:49 AM on June 16, 2000

Then hack the URL for the "counterpoint" article. I often suspect that Frontier / Manila users don't pay enough attention to how the site behaves differently for readers and editors.
posted by harmful at 8:57 AM on June 16, 2000

F***. counterpoint

And no excuses. I *know* better.
posted by Jeremy Bowers at 9:10 AM on June 16, 2000

Could whoever invented the idea of the Web just claim copyright on linking technology? Then he could sue EVERYBODY.

Heh heh heh. That'd be kEwL . . .
posted by ZachsMind at 8:46 AM on June 18, 2000