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Posted by dorayme on 11/19/87 11:34
> From: Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>
>
> Toby Inkster wrote:
>
>> Els wrote:
>>
>>> Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
>>> get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
>>> only taking the 6th, because it is free?
>>
>> Better analogy: I'm giving out free hobnobs to anyone who visits me at
>> home; you give people my address and say "free hobnobs here" and suddenly
>> everyone's turning and taking my hobnobs. Are you stealing hobnobs from
>> me?
>
> See below :-)
>
>>> I have pictures on my site that I pay bandwidth for - they come for free
>>> to anyone visiting my site. Not to anyone not visiting my site.
>>
>> s/house/URL/g;
>> s/hobnobs/pictures/g;
>>
>> I'm giving out free pictures to anyone who visits me at my URL; you give
>> people my address and say "free pictures here" and suddenly everyone's
>> turning and taking my pictures.
>>
>> I really like that analogy actually. Very apt.
>
> :-)
>
> The thing is though, that with deeplinking, they don't visit your
> house.
>
> One person visited your house, and constructed outlets for hobnobs
> from your hobnob-room. Big hoovers sucking the hobnobs from their
> packages and spitting them out at the other end, which happens to be
> outside your house or even in the next street.
>
> He is bypassing your condition of 'visit me at home' for others to
> obtain hobnobs. They get the hobnobs without the tea you were offering
> with them, and without you having a chance to give some nutritional
> information on the hobnobs.
>
Els is right. In general, there is something not quite nice
about simply using a pic from someone else's server without some
sort of explicit permission. Using the context of the website
from where it comes is a different matter, the permission then
being implied...
However, we all know there are no laws saying people need be
nice...
--
dorayme
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