Their T&Cs say you can’t do it.
Oops.
Wonder if they’ll sue me? Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough, Telegraph lawyers!*
Apparently you’re not allowed to ” modify or attempt to modify all or any part of the Content or the Site” either. I guess they’re going to be taking legal action against people who comment on their stories too?
Just when it was beginning to seem like newspapers are getting a handle on new media…tsk.
* These views are my own and not neccessarily those of my employer, this blog, or, indeed, any right thinking person.
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I just don’t understand why anyone would not want you to deeplink.
Some advertisers in affiliate networks do it as well. Is there a specific reason?
Or is it just them thinking that their homepage is the bomb diggity? - 3
My question is why publisher should have to link to them when they only have page rank 8 and will be mostly irrelevant to most blogger topic here?well,rather try to go to there site.deep link to PR9 link from flickr,I believe much more better then to telegraph.co.uk
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What, no link condom?
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Perhaps they are scared of Google Bombing?
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well as diggers recon the DT has an army of people submitting an digging stories on digg maybe one bit of the DT doesnt know what other people are doing
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I’m compelled to violate T’s and C’s at every opportunity, especially bone headed ones like this http://bit.ly/mSi7m
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They fixed this after I first twittered about it: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/newspapers-no-linking-to-us/
But they’re not the only ones – here’s a big list I made as a follow up: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/dont-link-to-us-part-two/
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Not many people probably know that.
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Do you dare to link to the telegraph http://tinyurl.com/b9xo5y
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Against Telegraph T&Cs to deep link to them! – http://tinyurl.com/b9xo5y
well it seems the telegraph is going backwards while the Guardian is moving forward http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/guardian-open-platform
Do the telegraph not want any long tail traffic or something? idiots