Posts Tagged ‘linking’

Via the New York Times
By NOAM COHEN
Published: November 23, 2008
A SMALL computer file appeared on the Internet last week, purporting to list the 13,000 members of the racist, far-right British National Party. The text file contained not just the names of the party’s supporters, but their home addresses, home phone numbers and, in some cases, [...]

Via Media Shift
by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, November 13, 2008
Linking to content is the essence of the online experience — it’s the “Web” in the World Wide Web. But there’s a lot of legal gray area around linking, and surprisingly few court rulings providing guidance as to the circumstances when linking could result in liability.
A court [...]

Via the New York Times
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: October 12, 2008

“Thou shalt not link to outside sites” — a long-held commandment of many newsrooms — is eroding.
Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors — acting in effect like aggregators. The Washington Post [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Julian Sanchez | Published: September 25, 2008 - 10:44AM CT
At long last, John McCain and Barack Obama can pantomime lightsaber duels or get their Numa Numa on like any other red-blooded American. In a move that a spokesperson for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called “a major step into the future,” the Senate [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: September 23, 2008 - 06:20AM CT
Large Chicago law firm Jones Day is suing a tiny Internet startup called BlockShopper over the use of the humble hyperlink. But BlockShopper has picked up a pair of allies in the form of the EFF and Public Citizen, and the two groups [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: September 23, 2008 - 06:20AM CT
Large Chicago law firm Jones Day is suing a tiny Internet startup called BlockShopper over the use of the humble hyperlink. But BlockShopper has picked up a pair of allies in the form of the EFF and Public Citizen, and the two groups [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: September 18, 2008 - 05:34AM CT
R.E.M. once sang about “the end of the world as we know it,” but Michael Stipe & Co. never suspected that the brat-loving, cheese-eating, grain-growing Midwest might be the source of the world-ending scourge. But a pair of recent federal court cases coming [...]