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   Huh?

   

   2Lazy2Register, May 1st, 2002 @ 5:42am

   
   

   If it's copyright they're so worried about, why don't they just put copyright info on each page?? I suspect it's more related to a perceived loss of banner ad income, which is probably measured by hits to the top page. Have you ever noticed how many ads there are in a paper newspaper? It's something like 80 - 90%!

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   Peter F Bradshaw, May 1st, 2002 @ 7:50am

   
   

   I must admit that I'm confused. Whether a deep link works or not is under the control of the object site (in thi scase the Dallas Morning News). If a http request for a deep linked page arrives they can simply rewrite it to their home page - or what ever. Where's the problem?

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   Anonymous Coward, May 1st, 2002 @ 7:57am

   
   

   they are too stupid to do that obviously.

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   agreeement

   

   Bob, May 1st, 2002 @ 8:44am

   
   

   The company i work for had the same problem with people enhancing their own web sites by deep-linking. We dealt with it exactly the same way Mike described -- we wrote a script that shuts out the offending domain names and saved our legal department a bundle.

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   Re: agreeement

   

   Anonymous Coward, May 1st, 2002 @ 10:17am

   
   

   Ok, so this probably is because I have no idea what your company does, but how exactly is deep linking a problem in the first place? Do you not like the fact that other websites are sending you traffic that you otherwise would never get?

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   sb, May 1st, 2002 @ 10:22am

   
   

   perhaps they want ALL USERS of their site to go thru a certain path. They want control of this. The banner ads are an example of this.
   
   also, perhaps they dont have programming staff on hand who can make the changes to their site. perhaps they have cheap lawyers , and they feel this is a more inexpensive route
   
   

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   Re: agreeement

   

   john, May 1st, 2002 @ 10:39am

   
   

   Maybe a good use of the DNS would be to somehow bin things up in such a way that there is an actual World Wide Web in the original spirit under one set of TLDs, and then the World Wide Media Empire under some other set.

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   Re: agreeement

   

   jbg, May 1st, 2002 @ 3:20pm

   
   

   Dallas Morning News online is a joke anyway. I don't even visit the site as 50% of any clicks on the homepage require you to register for their content. That coupled with pop-under ads!
   
   They are scared that they can't play with the big news web sites and they are right.
   
   I guess an RSS feed is out of the question? ;)

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   Re: agreeement

   

   bob, May 7th, 2002 @ 7:13am

   
   

   Not all web sites exist to draw traffic; In our case, a web site was linking to a moving sample arhive we have set up for potential clients. We don't have advertisements on our site, so getting more traffic isn't the point -- getting the right kind of traffic is.

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