Originally Posted by biftek

the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas found a website owner guilty of copyright infringement for linking to an another website's audio file without permission

Davis argued that he did not actually copy any material, he only provided a link to it which opened the material in a user's media player, but the court ruled that that link broke the law.

http://www.theregister.com/2007/01/2..._deep_linking/