Texas court bans deep linking
 

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/

Good news ! Direct linking to audio files/pics/movies should be a big NO NO ! Why should anyone allow people to link directly to content and circumvent any advertising that pays for bandwidth ? If this guy had linked to the html page with the stream, everybody would be happy.

sweet!
time to sue myspace!

on the otherhand that sux, cause ppl hot link pics all the time, u know? :helpme

thats the big question YouTube keeps facing :upsidedow

How will this apply to all the forums who post stolen content and claim they're not responsible because they're just providing links to it?

there was a bloke here in oz , got done over for linking to a search engine that searched for mp3's , he had no affiliation with the search engine , just linked to it and got done in big time

time to sue everyone

http://jynus.com/hotlinking/hotlinking.png



note: this image is hot linked ... :)

What? So people need to MARK content as being available, instead of properly protecting their files?

biftek arent you the guy that stole that other dudes code?

Did you say copyright infringement?

Kind of like when you copied my site: www.singlegirlnews.com
with this URL: http://www.justsinglegirls.com/


you fucking piece of shit
you'r going DOWN bitch!

Utoh
:eek7

yeah that's good news for sure