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[FYI] Have you been smart tagged? WinXP IE6 has a little list



http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19675.html

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Have you been smart tagged? WinXP IE6 has a little list  

By John Lettice  

Posted: 13/06/2001 at 15:00 GMT  

Recent builds of the Internet Explorer 6 beta have included the IE 
implementation of Microsoft's smart tag technology, prompting 
choruses of disapproval from the media. Which is of course 
understandable - smart tag technology parses its way through a web 
page, underlines the words it's been pre-programmed to react to, and 
inserts its own hyperlinks.  

[...]

That's what Microsoft says you can do to block them if you don't like 
them, but we kind of like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 
suggestion that you could sue Redmond for breach of copyright, as 
smart tags create unauthorised derivative works.  

[...]

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