Deeplinking Prohibited by Indian Court 19
Anonymous Coward writes "The Delhi High Court recently passed a temporary injunction restraining India Jobs Search Engine Bixee.com from linking to Naukri.com. This is the first case of its kind in India. There have been similar cases before in the US (Ticketmaster vs Microsoft), Denmark, Australia and Germany before. Wikipedia has a detailed article on the "deeplinking" issue."
An article on the issue: (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.efytimes.com/fullnews.asp?edid=9018
It appears that Bixee.com is an aggregator site for job searches, but Naukri is stating that "when [Bixee.com's] website becomes popular and gains a large number of hits, the necessity to access the plaintiff's website would be obviated."
That doesn't make any sense. Aggregators can't survive without the sites that they aggregate. Most aggregator sites won't ever choose to become content providers, because of the resources that this would entail.
Aggregators have positive and negative effects on the sites they aggregate, but it would be counter-productive for them to make the sites themselves unnecessary.
two notes about spoofing the referID (Score:3, Informative)
one: its easy BUT you have to use command line programs (wget) or plugins, in other words you have to delibertly set out to fool the content provider.
two: becuase note one takes effort you can pretty much guaranty 99% of you visitors will not employ it (of course there are execptions).
So as long as nothing mission critical needs protecting then checking referID is a good thing for websites to employ, just do not rely on it 100%.
This "story" should not have been posted (Score:3, Informative)
With a link it's news (and in this case news that would matter). Without it it's just hearsay.