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• >> I think the article is misleading. Linking to another site is currently legal, deep links or otherwise. Even according to the article, there is no US law or court decision that would make linking illegal or suggest that it infringes on copyrights. I think where you get into potential legal trouble is where you blur the ownership of the content. That occurs with the techniques discussed in the article about "framing" or "inlining". If you're doing that sort of stuff on your site, then you probably should be concerned. - Mike Rankin
• >> Thanks for the comment, Mike.
  
  And you're spot-on: linking is legal. Inlining, framing, posting PDFs of the original page content, etc are where folks get into legal trouble.
  
  However, our larger clients have expressed concern about the potential legal exposure. Unfortunately, should a site owner feel that there has been a copyright violation, the corporation still has to respond to the filing ... regardless of the legal precedent.
  
  More and more of our clients are seeking advance permission rather than asking for forgiveness.
  
  - David Taylor-Klaus
• >> I also think that some content sites (no naming dropping here, but a simple web search should turn up results) actually have outlined in their Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy's that direct links to articles are not allowed. So most everyone should do their homework at least a little bit before linking away. - Eric Jones

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• >> Will this CMS be usable on a shared hosting environment. I'm asking because there are so many good PHP-based open source CMS's out there (such as Drupal and Joomla) that are a breeze to install on a shared host. But the ones I know of that are CF-based (Farcry and Speck) are tricky to near-impossible to install on a shared host. - tony
• >> Tony, First of all, thanks for your interest in our CMS! I feel your pain regarding the complexities of installing CF based CMS products. Our mission is to make i3SiteTools as painless as possible. It's doubtful that because of the obvious differences in PHP and CF that i3SiteTools will ever be a one-click install ala Joomla available on a $6/month hosting provider. That said, I think our CMS has some amazing functionality for developers that is sorely lacking in most of the systems out there. - Ben Wakeman
• >> Thanks for your quick response, Ben, and thank you for open sourcing your CMS (I gather from RIAforge that it will be named Boomsocket?). The CF community is definitely in need of open source projects such as this one and I look forward to its release (and perhaps contributing to it some day). - Tony Garcia

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• >> How ironic, Ben. Assurant used to be a client of mine! - Jon Czerwinski

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