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I don't know what the chances are of this sort of thing getting to the States. So far the stupidity is limited to Europe, and it truly is just one more step on their path to economic irrelevancy in our lifetime. At this rate they won't have anything to sell but old castles and pretty vistas by the time I retire.

Deep Linking - Another article on deep linking, another heavy sigh.  Somebody call a timeout.  And motion for Congress to send some eager beaver who likes to create new laws.  Say, Berman, get over here.  You want to introduce some Internet legislation?  Okay, here's what you do.  Introduce a bill that says the law doesn't recognize any cause of action based on someone linking to another person's site (after all that's what the Web was created to allow).  But this law isn't there to protect people from their own stupidity, so if people want to use technical means to frustrate deep linking then they're allowed to do that.  Now that would be a law that makes sense.  So what are the odds of that getting passed? [Ernie the Attorney]