RE: [CH] Passport Site
Brent Leatherman (brent@mail.feist.com)
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 11:01:30 -0500
Or you *could* direct them to a porno site...
not that I'm actually condoning such an action, oh heaven's no! ;>)
B
At 11:26 AM 6/2/98 -0400, Matt Kraft wrote:
>Legal Smegal....
>
> I say fight fire with fire Mary... If you want, stoop to my
>level (Get a ladder)
> and change the address of the pages that they are referenceing
>with somthing to the
> following effect
>
> thePassword.com is illegally referencing my site. I find them
>guilty of being
> weenies and suggest you link to Yahoo at this address ....
>
> Yeah this is not nice and is very non-diplomatic but >:) its fun
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Oakes [SMTP:bill_oakes@ibm.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 9:59 AM
>> To: Chile-Heads Digest
>> Subject: [CH] Passport Site
>>
>> At the risk of angering El Grande, allow me to view this whole
>> situation re:
>> Passport from a slightly different angle - the user (yes, THAT guy (or
>> gal)).
>>
>> I found the site to actually be quite usable. It gives an overview of
>> any
>> item referenced, as well as clearly (although, granted, in smaller
>> letters...but highlighted in red) pointing out the source site for
>> said
>> info. Because of this, copyright infringement would be difficult to
>> prove,
>> imho.
>>
>> I then jumped to the main page, and looked at other subjects of
>> interest,
>> and found reasonably solid reference sites for those subjects. Not as
>> solid
>> as a yahoo search, but for a user that doesn't know how to manipulate
>> a
>> search site, this is a good start point.
>>
>> From a <non> legal standpoint, one could argue that there is a privacy
>> infringement, by referencing sites w/o permission ("this is my site,
>> you
>> need my permission to reference it" point of view). While
>> understandable,
>> if one tried to enforce that view, one would then have to forbid
>> Yahoo,
>> Altavista, Excite, etc to reference the infringed site during any user
>> searches. I'm not sure that any webmaster would like that.
>>
>>
>> "Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."
>> Bill Oakes
>> San Jose, USA
>> bill_oakes@ibm.net
>
>
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