What Is the Deep Web?
As a kind of link method, deep link is widely used in the Internet field. Technically, network links can be divided into two types: "ordinary links" and "deep links."
- Links, also known as hypertext links, refer to the use of a hypertext production language to edit a text file containing markup instructions and establish a connection between two different documents or different parts of the same document, so that visitors can access different URLs through one URL Files, or accessing other sections on the same site through a specific section.
- Links can be divided into different types according to different criteria. For example, according to different link technologies, links can be divided into ordinary links, deep links, embedded links and framed links; according to different link methods, links can be divided into protocol links, encrypted links, free links and reverse login links Wait. Among these links, there are three types of links: (1) specific content on the same webpage; (2) specific content on different pages on the same website; and (3) specific content on different websites. The third kind of pointing has two situations. One is pointing to the homepages of different websites, which are called external links. Generally, external links do not infringe. Another kind of page refers to a page under the homepage of a different website, called an internal link, also known as depth
- Deep links are widely used in industries such as music search websites, video websites or video aggregation platforms, and content aggregation apps.
- The essence of the Internet is interconnection, and links are the basic means to achieve Internet interconnection. With the help of links, users can cross the physical boundaries of time and space and conveniently access information resources stored in any open space on the Internet among massive information resources. The chain maker uses deep link technology to further improve the convenience for users to obtain information. At the same time, the copyright owner's work is essentially presented on the interface they control, which has different degrees of substitution effects on the linked website, obscuring the traditional "channels" and " The boundaries of "content" providers have caused much controversy. In particular, with the development of the Internet video industry, the promotion of various content aggregation apps, and disputes caused by deep linking behaviors have frequently made headlines, such as Sohu, Tencent, Youku Tudou, and LeTV.com accused Baidu of robbing the chain and stealing broadcasts; "Today's Headline" has been "mouthed" by content providers such as Tencent, Sohu, and the Beijing News. What's more, the country's first case of criminal penalties for copyright infringement of "deep links" has appeared in the country.
- How to define the damage to the interests of copyright holders due to deep linking behaviors, whether the linkers can be effectively held under the existing law to maintain the balance of interests, and how to regulate the deep linking behaviors under the legal framework have caused academia, industry and Attention and discussion in the judiciary. [3]
- In the mid-1990s, controversy caused by links began to appear. recent years
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