Re: Legality of Linking

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Hello, I have just seen the article, and I can't believe it. This is totally
new for me. Let me see what can I say about it: "Universal Pictures" sucks
(sorry for being so rude, but it is the truth).

Is like if I tell a fiend that in the front grocery they are selling a great
new cereal, so my friend goes to the strore and without even looking to the
other cereals, he grabs the one that I told him and buys it, and because of
the the owner of the store sue me. What about our right of free
expresion?...

...Big corporations are doing whatever they want on a place where in the
first
place was not done for them. What I knew about Internet, it was from the
people for the people. That is the reason of internet. There are too many
laws about internet this days, that it is very different that it used to be
three years ago. Does anyone has heard about that the goverment of the US
wants to add more taxes about the use of Internet? Next thing that we will
know about will be that we can't do anything in here without paying or
asking for permision.

What I think is that Internet is a place when everyone can talk, post, or as
you want to call it, anything they want. Is the paradise of free expresion.
(Well, they may bee some rules =O) ) and if the goverment and the big
corporations keep adding their laws to it, then, the people will lose all
the interest in it, and they will get just the contrary of what they want.

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I read somewhere not very long ago that a good deal of people, notable in
professional marketing fields, tend to thing of the Internet as an
"entertainment medium" or "marketing medium", similar to television, for
example.  I wish I could remember where I had stumbled across that, so I
could give the originator credit.

The upshot of the was to claim that the Internet is really a new world.  We
have different worlds in our life: our home world, our work world...each is
integrated with the other to various degrees, yet each is distinct.  So the
Internet is more than a passive outlet for entertainment, and yet many don't
seem to be catching on.  Perhaps it isn't their fault: born and raised to
commercialism and a certain set of standards, it's hard to recognize that
there's a difference between the glowing box where commercials rule, and the
glowing box where the kids do things like "chat".

This has been recognized, and the Old Guard has continuously lost due to an
inability to adapt, as is normal in life.  Not all...many people are
intelligent enough to see what is happening, but some are confused or
scared, and wish to force this new thing into a shape they can recognize
without leaving their comfort zone. It never works, at least for long, but
there always seem to be some that need to try.

Imagine for a moment that the Net was somehow changed
fundamentally...restricted and twisted.  What would be the point?  The "free
interaction" between individuals is why we are here...and without us, who
would the business advertise to?

Visit http://www.cluetrain.com ... and pity those who are too blind to see,
or too scared to admit that a very fundamental change has occurred in their
world...:).

Darrell

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