RE: [CH] Passport Site
Matt Kraft (MKraft@infotech-usa.com)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:26:54 -0400
Legal Smegal....
I say fight fire with fire Mary... If you want, stoop to my
level (Get a ladder)
and change the address of the pages that they are referenceing
with somthing to the
following effect
thePassword.com is illegally referencing my site. I find them
guilty of being
weenies and suggest you link to Yahoo at this address ....
Yeah this is not nice and is very non-diplomatic but >:) its fun
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Oakes [SMTP:bill_oakes@ibm.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 9:59 AM
> To: Chile-Heads Digest
> Subject: [CH] Passport Site
>
> At the risk of angering El Grande, allow me to view this whole
> situation re:
> Passport from a slightly different angle - the user (yes, THAT guy (or
> gal)).
>
> I found the site to actually be quite usable. It gives an overview of
> any
> item referenced, as well as clearly (although, granted, in smaller
> letters...but highlighted in red) pointing out the source site for
> said
> info. Because of this, copyright infringement would be difficult to
> prove,
> imho.
>
> I then jumped to the main page, and looked at other subjects of
> interest,
> and found reasonably solid reference sites for those subjects. Not as
> solid
> as a yahoo search, but for a user that doesn't know how to manipulate
> a
> search site, this is a good start point.
>
> From a <non> legal standpoint, one could argue that there is a privacy
> infringement, by referencing sites w/o permission ("this is my site,
> you
> need my permission to reference it" point of view). While
> understandable,
> if one tried to enforce that view, one would then have to forbid
> Yahoo,
> Altavista, Excite, etc to reference the infringed site during any user
> searches. I'm not sure that any webmaster would like that.
>
>
> "Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."
> Bill Oakes
> San Jose, USA
> bill_oakes@ibm.net