Orwellian Link Police Will Get You

Marshall Kirkpatrick gets to the chewy chocolate center of the TV Links’ founder arrest for “illegal linking”:

[from TV Links Founder Arrested for Illegal Linking]

If Mr. Sharp will forgive me for linking to it, I will point out that the Internet Archive has preserved copies of the wretched TV Links site through the past 12 months. I want to emphasize that I’m only linking to a site that’s cached a site that’s linking to other sites that may include content that could have been uploaded without the copyright holder’s consent.

Note that I don’t include the link. The Link Police might knock on the door.

No matter what TV Links has done, ultimately we will have to turn away from ‘illegal linking’ as actionable.