chiyo - 3:31 pm on Jul 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

Deep linking is of course the lifeblood of the Web. without it, the web loses a lot of its hyperlinking soul. But I guess web site owners and copyright owners should have the right to ask for links to be removed to them. I dont see deep linking as a "right" as many webloggers do, though we deep link a lot and if someone asks us to delete a link we will. However to this site deep linking is its whole rationale.

I doubt very few sites would request not to be deeplinked to, though i know a few that do (and aggressively claim that deeplinking is 'illegal' which is a doubtful claim in most parts of the world) and doubt they would make much difference really to how the web works.

[edited by: chiyo at 3:41 pm (utc) on July 5, 2002]