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To: Gottfried who wrote (37762)	8/6/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

OT Warning on clicking. Heck, the warning should be clear. Everyone on earth should avoid linking at all to Universal Pictures Web site, either 'surface' or 'deep' links could lead one to being prosecuted. They will detect your presence and it might well be that a judge somewhere on this earth will find you guilty of unlicensed access to their property. Good luck to them if they teach people that they are a maniacal litigator. Better avoid going to see Universal Pictures movies too because they might accuse you of unlicensed viewing or something absurd. You never know with litigious people what they'll try. Anyway, links are not 'surface' or 'deep'. That implies that there is some process which defines the surface and the correct order in which to connect to the information they provide free, with no licenses and no warnings that they are criminal lawyers [apologies to Pierre - whose name I should perhaps not use because it is a breach of his intellectual property]. An url is an independent, free standing, something.something. There is no hierarchy in that. Within a Web site, they might put links in a particular order, but any can be linked from anywhere if the link is known. Imagine if one inadvertently clicked to a DEEP LINK. One would immediately be branded a trespasser and breacher of copyright or something. Calling a particular url a "Home Page" implies some sort of priority, but they are going berserk. Copying and selling trailers on a CD-ROM is a different matter, but they have gone way past that issue. Maybe everyone should send a Webloom email to everyone they have on their email list to not click on Universal Pictures urls for fear of being prosecuted! We might find out whether Universal Pictures deserves "A big movie studio is a little threatening". Maybe a BIG Web crowd is a little threatening too. Especially if they keep their fingers off the clicker and their money in their cyberaccount. BIG is going to take on new meaning in the Web. And BIG will not be some bullying lawyer from Universal Pictures. If they click on this writing, then they are going to get sued by me!!! They are not licensed by me to access my writing and this is to specifically exclude Universal Pictures from reading, copying or otherwise bits and byting anything written by me. Even if they access this via a surface link rather than a deep link. Furthermore, this is to advise Silicon Investor that they and I have got a general readership agreement, which the continued inclusion of this post stipulates and bears witness to agreement thereof, that anyone except Universal Pictures or their agents may read these bits and bytes. Heretofore or hereinafter, severally, jointly and exclusively this agreement is solemnly made this day, 6 August 1999 [or 7 August 1999 depending on where you are]. Mqurice PS: That includes Morgan Drake, who might claim to be a real person. 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To: Gottfried who wrote (37762)	8/6/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Gottfried. Interesting article. I can see that some entity might feel damaged if their site was overwhelmed by visitors in such a way that it inhibited use by their intended audience. It seems to me that those businesses who chose to use the net, which is essentially free to them as a public utility, do at the same time accept the public's right to view it as often as they choose using all normal means for viewing. Links are certainly a normal means as they neither destroy the site nor crack security codes. The question of whether a second business can make a living providing access to a deep link is an interesting one, but I doubt that any court will act as an extension of a site operator and attempt to force the public to pass thru a maze of advertising. Free speech and expression is very dear in the US. JohnG