That's some weird-ass disconnect from reality. Is that clause some kind of meme the control freak legal departments copy from each other without good reason? Or is there an actual reason I could understand?
lolc | 13 days ago
Several of the examples reference "deep linking", for example "While we welcome all normal links to our sites we regard 'deep linking' as an infringement of our copyright." - I wonder what that could mean. Anything besides the home page?
marklar423 | 13 days ago
From 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1178072 Royal Mail still at it 14 years later
malcolmcoles | 13 days ago
Never expected Man Utd to feature in HN :p
leosanchez | 13 days ago
is it forced? how did they could do it?
firemelt | 13 days ago
Maybe I’m misremembering, but I feel like this used to be a widespread thing one did circa 2000-2005 (before Web 2.0). I remember emailing a handful of sites and asking them if I could link to their content, and this being a normal request.