More Whining About Deep Linking
from the get-over-it-and-do-something dept
Wired is running an interesting article discussing the "problems" associated with deep-linking. I think the people who are complaining are, frankly, whining too much. I understand the issue of paying for the bandwidth, but complaining that it's not "right" doesn't do anything to change it. If you want to block out other servers from accessing you there are ways to use the technology to do that. Just do that, and calm down. If you leave it open to linking, then don't complain when people link to you. The point of the web is that everything is supposed to be hyperlinked together. Be happy about it.
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From the end user perspective, if I follow a link that Techdirt gives, I am taken to the news source's site where the content is presented to me. I do not get the content free from it's surrounding framework as it were. However, when it comes to files or streams then a link essentially sends raw content to the user. I think it would be better for other sites to link to a page on Xaudio (or whatever it was called) where the music is offered for streaming/download instead of linking directly to the stream/files themselves.
I think that's a meaningful difference don't you?
P.S. Mike, how hard is it to add a "submit" button to the preview screen? I would like to see that if it isn't too difficult to do.
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As for the submit button... yes, yes, we should do that. It's something that has been requested before, and we keep meaning to add it, and we should. And, we will... soon...
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