The answer seems to be, "maybe". Sites can ask people to not link to URLs other than the front page; but US law is murky about what happens next. There is the famous case of Ticketmaster Corp. v. Tickets.com Inc which doesn't seem to be resolved even yet:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyber/cyberlaw/07law.html http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/~s-bes1/lcp.html This policy seems somewhat short-sighted of homestore.com to me... You're not spidering and copying to your server, you're not defeating a paid service, you're not misrepesenting their content as yours. --- -DA $_='[EMAIL PROTECTED] 519-575-3733 /Prescient Code Solutions/ coder.com ';s/-/ /g;s/([.@])/ $1/g;@y=(42*1476312054+7*3,14120504e4,-42*330261-33, 42*5436+3,42*2886+10,42*434987+5);s/(.)/ord(uc($1))/ge;for(@x=split/32/; @y; map{print chr} split /(..)/, shift(@x) + shift(@y)) {perlmonk.da.ru} On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joel Gwynn wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:25:53PM -0400, Daniel R. Allen wrote: > > > > > Hm... if you could get a reliable source for driving commute times, and > > > put in the subway as well, I see potential for a very popular site. :-) > > > > And he better not tell too many more people or realtor.com will probably > start > > sending him cease and desist orders because he is violating their terms of > use. > > > > http://www.realtor.com/AboutUs/TermsOfUse.asp > > > > Contains: > > > > Except with the written permission of Homestore.com, you agree that you > will > > not create links from any web site or web page to any page within the > > Homestore.com Web Sites with the exception of the Homestore.com Web Sites > > homepages, including, but not limited to pages currently located at > > www.homestore.com, www.realtor.com, www.homebuilder.com, > www.springstreet.com > > and www.homefair.com. > > > > -- > > Jason > > Not that I care, but can they really do this? I mean, deep-linking and > data-mining are one thing, but I'm just sending more people to their site. > They'd be pretty dumb to come after me, anyway. > > Is there any kind of case history on this yet? > > >
