Deeplinking Prohibited by Indian Court

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."

That was fast...

[RenQuanta]

...someone already updated the Wikipedia entry to include this story.

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[pkphilip]

Courts in India are often over zealous when it comes to computer related issues and quite often issue orders which are rediculous. This is mostly because the court has a very superficial understanding about computer technology.

The cops are no better. For example, in Chennai, they recently banned the playing on LAN games at Netcafes in the city. By "they" I mean the cops. I don't see what authority the cops have to ban anything in this country as they certainly don't have any legislative powers but these things happen a lot in India.

Quite often the boundaries between what a court can do, what the legislature can do and what the police can do is very faint or completely blurred in India. For instance, the supreme court in India mandated that all public transportation buses in Delhi must be converted to run on natural gas. I don't see how that is even allowed since the supreme court does not have any legislative powers.