Hypocritical linking policy

by Dietsch on June 28, 2004

in Intellectual freedom, privacy, etc.

Fodors.com, which now has a travel blog, wants to prohibit anyone from deep-linking into its content (”‘deep linking’ past the FODORS.COM homepage is strictly prohibited”). So even though the Fodors bloggers deep-link into other sites, Fodors’ lawyers want to prevent you from doing the same thing. Someone at Fodors doesn’t get the Web at all.

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1 Dan 06.28.04 at 4:09 pm

I thought we’d gotten past the ludicrous concept of “Don’t link to us without permission”? I remember when, a few years ago, some companies were making a huge stink about this.

You’d think they’d like the traffic…

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