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Back around 2002, I had a pdf icon on my website. It got deep linked by a few others but the number one source of traffic came from the website of a lawyer who specialised in intellectual property. There was something on there about how it was illegal to deep link.

I was tempted to replace with goatse but I think I just changed it to a screenshot of his website saying that it was illegal to deep link.

It soon got changed.



That's a neat example of recursion :)


I honestly don't understand the issue- he linked to a specific page? What's the problem?


I believe they mean the lawyer hotlinked [1] their image so that every visitor to the lawyer’s page would result in an image download from their server.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking


He deeplinked to an image file, whilst claiming on his website that such action is illegal.


Is deeplinking the same as hotlinking?


Even though it's not illegal!




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