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2005-03-09 20:32 UTC Don't want people to link to you? Then don't make your page publicly available

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Don't want people to link to you? Then don't make your page publicly available

Lawrence Lessig pointed out on his blog the other day about how the syndicators of a Bill O`Reilly column complaining about "unauthorized linking".

So following Lessig's invitation, here is the offending link.

A suggestion to the syndicators: If you don't want people to post "unauthorized" links, either password protect the page, or require people to view a page setting out terms first, or verify that the referrer field is set to an "authorized" source. It's not hard to do - lots of people have done it before you.



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I was born April 21st, 1975, in Oslo, Norway. Since 2000 I've been living in London, UK. I'm married and we just had our first child, Tristan Ikemefuna Hokstad.

I'm working for Aardvark Media as Director of Technology. I'm also currently on the board of SpatialQ, a startup in the GIS space, and an advisor to Skoach, a startup doing a time management app for people with ADD.

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