Development in controvercial Danish deep linking case.

- using a browser to dig out the links!

[Rumbas]

Recap: Danish company Newsbooster was forced by a judge to close their news search engine with deep links to news paper sites. Newsbooster threatend to move their service to Singapore, where deep links supposedly are ok.

Reference thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Yesterday they annonced that they have shot down their search engine and in stead offers a downloadable browser that has the same functionalty eg. search for news links. The difference is that the search now goes out from the users computer and not Newsboosters. According to news sources here in Denmark, it's supposed to be legal. However, the news papers assosiation believes it's still illegal.

Newsbooster is under liquidation, but their activities will be run from the UK.

Unfortunaly I can't find any english sources to back it up, but you can find the new browser here: [newsbooster.com...] and if you're able to read Danish: [computerworld.dk...]

Now, the question is whether this will be frowned upon by the legislation again or have the initial idea with the Internet - linking sites together - finally won?

The latter I hope.

[hakre]

it still depends. in general at the moment linking and deep linking is not illegal, that changed from the earlier days when judges were not familiar with the net, but it still depends.

[Rumbas]

Following links from one Web page to another may soon require users to run special stealth applications, if a Danish search company's experience is a sign of things to come.

To link directly to some newspapers' content, Danish search firm Newsbooster now must use the sort of decentralized subterfuge utilized by companies that distribute file-sharing applications.

[wired.com...]