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Gold Medal for Stupid Linking Policy?
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posted by scubacuda
on Wednesday August 18, @03:07AM
from the "For-your-protection-and-ours" dept.
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Ott writes "There have always been reports about
webmasters that don't like links pointing to their websites. First they sued mostly
because of deep links and lost in many European countries (e.g. Austria, Germany) and in the USA - remember the Ticketmaster case?
Then they tried to restrict the right to link with stupid
linking policies and ridiculed themselves (the websites of Prof. Sorkin and Dr.
Ott feature lists of companies that do so in the USA and in Germany). And
are they getting smarter now? Guess not! Take a look at the official Olympic
website and their Hyperlink
policy: If you want to link to their site you have to send a request letter
to the Internet Department stating e.g. a short description of your site, the url of your site, the publishing period (How about linking
for three months?...) and the reason for linking (I always wanted to link to
your site, I very much admire its content
.)! And finally you are only allowed to use the term ATHENS 2004 and no other term as the text referent,"
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