Re: LAW: Legality of deep linking to Web sites

From: ct (tilley@att.net)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 15:11:37 MST


From: "Michael Wiik" <mwiik@messagenet.com>
> The MPAA vs 2600 case established that it is illegal for 2600.com to
> link to certain sites carrying DeCSS info. AFAIK, this is the only law
> that prohibits linking, and applies only to 2600. Last I looked, 2600
> was printing unlinked URLs to such sites.

More at:
http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,41199,00.html
[Copyright: Your Right or Theirs?
by Brad King
2:00 a.m. Jan. 19, 2001 PST
Consumer rights are being slowly eroded with the help of a law meant to
build up content distribution on the Internet.
That's the argument the Electronic Frontier Foundation will make on Friday
with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, as the organization
hopes to overturn an injunction against 2600 Magazine.]



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