illegal? / myLot

Singapore

November 10, 2008 7:54pm CST

Is it against the law to make others pay for getting of URLs of other people's websites? Is it illegal even if we are not giving the contents inside the websites but just giving the address/URLs because we are asking for payment?

1 response

Jimeous

@Jimeous (858)

• New Zealand

11 Nov 08

Well it depends on the circumstances, mostly with copyright and fraud. A copyright example, if you're selling a list of links to get content which should have initially been paid for then you could be in trouble. A Fraud example is if you are claiming the content in the link has an advantage which doesn't exist in reality Ultimately you're not selling a link but content it leads to. Anyway that's my opinion

Ongtina

@ongtina (1232)

• Singapore

11 Nov 08

You give very clear answer, thank you so much.

Ongtina

@ongtina (1232)

• Singapore

11 Nov 08

I went to your site and saw the ListJoe.com . There is a question I'd like to ask; if I join under you, what do I benefit and lost? And what do you benefit?( so that I can understand what I gain if others join under me, willing to share? )

Jimeous

@Jimeous (858)

• New Zealand

11 Nov 08

glimmerized You're talking about mailing lists which is different than selling links, or content leading to links, or the contents of those links. I'm not sure where e-mail lists was mentioned in this discussion.