Can it be illegal to link to a site?
 

Think about this:

I have someone linking to www.mrthumbs.com (not my site but just an example).

And i dont want this fucker to link to me... is there anything i can do?

Second example:
I have someone linking to www.mrthumbs.com (not my site but just an example) and mrthumbs is a trademark.. is there anything we can do then
since he included a trademarked name on his website (part of the url?).

Third more practical example:

Someone created an affiliate program and linked several high profile companies and sponsors without a ref link making it look like they are
A. affiliated or B. advertisers of the site.

And im one of them and want my link of his site but he says i shouldnt complain because its 'free advertising'.

redirect link from the unwanted referer for the first example.

I'm sure if Disney could do something about all the porn sites linking their exit links to disney.com they would have by now.

htaccess

Send them to goatse

hmmm not to sure about that?

There is no law, you can only block his i.p. through htaccess:

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 123.some.punks.i.p.12
allow from all
</LIMIT>

Wouldnt ht access work with a refering link somewhere else

If this was the church they would sue your ass off and fucking win. I don't think you can just randomly link to anything.

Traffic is already redirected to a page from php with a quick explanation this person is a scammer. (doesnt seem to bother him).

But it did make me think about the subject.. i could setup any type of shop and
claim affiliation with any big player and theres nothing they can do about it. Hmm..

Anything can be illegal......... its the freedom of information age!