Dallas Morning News vs. Deeplinking ( Site Barks About Deep Link )

WIRED.COM ^ | Farhad Manjoo

[visagoth]

By his own proud admission, Avi Adelman is an irrepressible muckraker.

As the proprietor of BarkingDogs.org, a "proactive" news website that unearths political malfeasance in and around Dallas, Texas, Adelman has been, as he loves to say, "a thorn in the side of a lot of people out here."

[Drango]

Next, they will be telling FreeRepublic we can't do it either!

[Wright is right!]

Imbeciles at Belo apparently don't know that the proper coding can accomplish exactly what they're whining about - making all content inaccessible unless you come in the front door. Stupid is as stupid does.

Michael

[visagoth]

I posted this article as it references Free Republic as being in a similar situation. Barkingdogs.org

[bvw]

Honestly, the paper could solve the deeplinking problem itself, in a straightforward manner. It could customize its web server to force the deeplink to the front page, or to an commerically framed article window. They have the technology to do so, it is not a reach.

Something similar is done with many image-hosting sites. Photopoint and AngelFire both use to allow any image link from anywhere, so you could link in your images from non-Photopoint or AngelFire pages. Now their image servers stop out the request when it is not from a Photopoint or AngelFire site.

Instead they are pursuing lawsuits, forcing others to do work they themselves could do.

[TexRef]

Honestly, the paper could solve the deeplinking problem itself, in a straightforward manner. It could customize its web server to force the deeplink to the front page, or to an commerically framed article window. They have the technology to do so, it is not a reach.

Exactly. Instead of paying thousands of dollars on lawyers they could solve it from a technology standpoing.

Just check to see where the person is coming from -- if they linked to a story within the Dallas News site and it was from a link already within the Dallas News site, then redirect them to the home page.

I'd only charge them about $5000 and it would take me less than an hour :)

[Timesink]

I say we give them what they want. FR, and all other websites, should stop linking to, or even MENTIONING, any Dallas Morning News content. Once their hit count starts to fall through the floor, and their op-ed writers start whining because they're not getting their egos stroked by having their stories discussed on FR, Belo will get the hint! <grin>

[Ben Ficklin]

Perhaps someone can clear something up for me: Dallas News requires registration to access their site. I have posted deep-links to particular articles there on the Free Republic and those that followed the link were not able to view the article without registering. So how is BarkingDogs able to deeplink such that registration is not required?

[Syncro]

FYI

[VOA]

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[Rebelbase]

Here is a "deeplink", about "Belo" the corporation that is crying the loudest about it, as referenced in the article.

[okie01]

"It could customize its web server to force the deeplink ...to a commercially framed article window. They have the technology to do so, it is not a reach."

Even our favorite dinosaurs -- the LA Slimes and the Washington ComPost -- have figured out this trick.

Why is it that Belo can't figure it out? Just because they're arrogant bastards, does that mean their brains have ceased working? Or that they'd rather spend money on lawyers than on programmers?