This is just scarry! Think of all the wonderful lawsuits it would enable... Talking of opening the floodgates makes me think of Lawrence Lessig's latest post on unauthorised linking ("Make my day, bill-ites"), which is quite funny!
Well, Jeff, nothing new under the sun... Since there are powerful search tools, there have been such phenomena. For (too) many examples, see Chilling Effects. Or have a look at this January 2001 story reported by Wired. As for linking, look at the Terms of use of some big websites, and you might be amazed. For a more recent example, see here (official Olympics Games websites linking policy).
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This is just scarry!
Think of all the wonderful lawsuits it would enable... Talking of opening the floodgates makes me think of Lawrence Lessig's latest post on unauthorised linking ("Make my day, bill-ites"), which is quite funny!
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002771.shtml
Well, Jeff, nothing new under the sun... Since there are powerful search tools, there have been such phenomena.
For (too) many examples, see Chilling Effects. Or have a look at this January 2001 story reported by Wired.
As for linking, look at the Terms of use of some big websites, and you might be amazed.
For a more recent example, see here (official Olympics Games websites linking policy).
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