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It hasn't happened yet, but I see a "reckless linking" lawsuit where someone sues Slashdot or another site for causing monetary damages.
Good call. Short article, but worth the read, and a legitimate concern for a lot of people. Someone asked me if they could link to my site today, not a big deal since neither of us get traffic on the scale of a site like slashdot, so I replied that information wants to be free, so go ahead, yada yada. That's the thing, though, I pay a hosting fee already, and that's as free as my information gets. I don't want to pay a bandwidth bill. Definitely an interesting subject.
Well, I got Macslashed a while back. Late December I mirrored a video that put me over my bandwidth limit in about 3 hours. Luckily my provider shuts off your site after it goes over the limit. Being a personal site, no big deal, but if this would happen to a small business, or some other money making or non profit organization, there could be serious repercussions. I can choose to pay for more bandwidth if I need it, but I don't need it. i've only been shut off once and my pages are pretty small, even in dialup terms. anyway, just dropping in to say I'm back from the vacation. Oh yeah, I'm writing this from Safari. Figured i'd give it a shot. I hafta say i'll be using Chimera mostly since there is no tabbed browsing in Safari.