The TicketMaster situation is simple: TicketMaster isn't happy with the
monopoly rents that they get from controlling all credit-card-based
tickets sales in the US. Instead, they want to expand their profits by
getting content providers with big pockets, like Micro$oft (notice the
placement of the $ sign), to pay them for "permission" to link to their
site.
I think that's technically and ethically equivalent to making anyone who
wants to discuss my phone number (or any other address) pay me.
- dan
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> -----Original Message----- > From: John R Chang [SMTP:JRChang+@CMU.EDU] > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 1997 10:52 AM > To: Jay Thomas > Cc: FoRK > Subject: Re: TB-L issue with links > > On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Jay Thomas wrote: > > > Ticketmaster is pissed at M$oft for putting a link to their site on > a > > M$soft entertainment page. This, to me, seems utterly harmless, > makes > > total sense, and would only serve to increase Ticketbastards > revenues; > > I believe they were upset because if you followed the link to the > Ticketmaster site, the Microsoft banner, navigation bar, ads, etc. > were > still shown on the screen in another frame. This made it look like > the > Ticketmaster site was some part of the Microsoft site. > > > John Chang > School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University > JRChang+@CMU.EDU | http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jrc/ >