You Can't Link Here

An anonymous reader writes "Last year several news sources reported about the website dontlink.com from David Sorkin, associate professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. His website fights 'stupid linking policies' that attempt to impose restrictions on other sites that link to them. Now a German law student joined the fight against linking restrictions and starts getting media attention in Germany. His list of stupid German linking policies can be found at the website Links & Law. Contrary to the model of dontlink.com, the German site refrains from linking to companies that prohibit linking without their consent. The site only states the URL of the websites with the linking policies. The page with the linking policies is in German, but the rest of the website is in English and covers many legal aspects of linking."

Maybe there just scared

[ifreakshow]

These companies probably don't allow linking because they are afraid of a slashdotting.

Nehmen die Plakate viel der Drogen kürzlich?

[loggia]

Nehmen die Plakate viel der Drogen kürzlich? Mit allem passenden Respekt uns ist zu informieren über jemand anderes, das bereits erfolgtes etwas tut - auf Deutsch nichtsdestoweniger - nicht dieses germane. Ich würde nicht sein, also störte, wenn ich nicht mehrere meiner eigenen Unterordnungen - die gute - zusammenfassend vor kurzem zurückgewiesen gesehen hatte.

It's important to remember that when Linking...

[RumGunner]

You don't forget the Tri-Force.

And don't leave home without your magic boomerang either.

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This just in....

[Chris_Stankowitz]

Slashdot is the biggest offender of bad linking practices. Its users bring down a stagering 2 million sties a year due to its linking to anything with a "http://" in the address. Kharma Whores are thought to be at the top of the /. list of offenders. Catch the full expose on HardCopy at 9.

The last few sentences of his webpage...

[miltimj]

On occasion a web site will modify its linking policy in response to public ridicule. Perhaps their appearance in Don't Link to Us! will help encourage some of these sites to move forward into the 20th century. (emphasis mine)

But perhaps they've changed their policies in the last 100 years??...

Re:Principles of Un-enforceable Rules

[cioxx]

Ahahahaha.

Chico, California: Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine.

Re:Maybe I'm in the minority here...

[/dev/trash]

And how do you expect to ever get traffic?

Re:Hypocrisy ??

[RallyNick]

>(short of using a little bandwidth)

huh? ever heard of slashdotting?

Re:Maybe there just scared

[seanscottrogers]

These are very important rules here people! How hard is it to obey a disclaimer by not copying material or hyperlinking to it? Their Disclaimer clearly states

"American Express prohibits caching, unauthorized hypertext links to the Site and the framing of any Content available through the Site"

It really says this... go ahead and read it [americanexpress.com].

And by the way, be sure to disable caching or history in your browser before visiting the site.

Re:Principles of Un-enforceable Rules

[minesweeper]

And now it's statewide. A new law just went into effect [sfgate.com] as of the first of the year:

From now on, anyone caught using nuclear weapons in California must give a sample to the state's DNA registry of criminals. No longer will nuclear holocaust get in the way of unsolved crimes.

Re:Nehmen die Plakate viel der Drogen kürzlich?

[Shadow Wrought]

I couldn't resist going to Alta Vista'a Babel Fish.

Nehmen die Plakate viel der Drogen kürzlich? Mit allem passenden Respekt uns ist zu informieren über jemand anderes, das bereits erfolgtes etwas tut - auf Deutsch nichtsdestoweniger - nicht dieses germane. Ich würde nicht sein, also störte, wenn ich nicht mehrere meiner eigenen Unterordnungen - die gute - zusammenfassend vor kurzem zurückgewiesen gesehen hatte.

Do the posters take much the drugs recently? With all suitable respect us is to inform about somebody else, already taken place the something does - on German nontheless - not this Teuton. I would not be, therefore disturbed, if I had not seen several of my own subordinations - the good - rejected in summary recently.

Gotta love Babel Fish!

Re:Am I a WHORE?

[jazman_777]

'team has no I'

comeback: There is in "win".

Re:Maybe there just scared

[Temporal]

If the page loads too slow, you might want to try Google's cached copy [216.239.57.100].

Re:Not necessarily unenforceable (with commentary)

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe their linking policy states:

By linking to our site you agree not to link to our site...