From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 18:08:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Hyperlinks case settles at door of court
Message-ID: <199711141000.LAA02050@basement.replay.com>
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Bill Stewart wrote:
> >The Shetland Times case has been settled - links will be permitted with
> >certain conditions
> >See http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/headline/97nov/settled/settled.html

> And it was even settled reasonably, and without setting new bad UK case law.

  People acting reasonably and settling their differences without
resorting to promoting strict new laws enforced by armed agents
of the government?
  The end of the world _really_is_ drawing close, isn't it?
[That wasn't an earthquake...that was the people in Hell, beginning
 to shiver, from the cold.]

BrrrrMonger
 
> (For those who don't remember the case, the Shetland News and
> Shetland Times are Scottish newspapers with web pages.
> The News was linking from its page to some of the Times's stories
> without pointing out that the stories were in their competitor's paper,
> and the Times sued them.  In the settlement they agree that the
> News may link to the Times's pages, and that they'll only do so
> with visible indications that they're doing so.)
>                                 Thanks!
>                                         Bill
> Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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