Legal Newsguard scans lots of news-sources for relevant news for you and gets you right to the source without you having to search. What Newsguard does can be considered deeplinking: offering links to directly access underlying pages, without having to visit the homepage of the site. This, in some cases, means that people do not visit the homepage of a newssource. Some site-owners do not like deeplinking into their site. Deeplinking was brought to court by Ticketmaster suing Tickets.com because Tickets.com was offering tickets to the public and then linking to Ticketmaster's content! Their case was tried at the District court. Tickets.com won the deeplinking case. Judge Hupp ruled that deeplinking is not illegal as long as it is clear to whom the linked page belongs. Ticket.com's winning argument was that if you stop people from linking, then the web is no longer a web but instead a collection of isolated chunks of information. Newsguard agrees and has thus far never received any complaints from our newssources. In fact, these sites benefit from newsguard agents directing traffic to them. The agents may even point your attention at sites you never visited before. This is good for you, the newssource and Newsguard. disclaimer  - ©2002 newsguard.com