Read me, don't link me

To link or not to link?

Nicolai Lassen considers linking such a fundamental element of the World Wide Web that he sees nothing wrong with creating a service around linking to news articles at more than 3,000 other sites. Danish publishers, however, equate such linking with stealing -- and have gone to court to stop it. The case, scheduled for hearings in Copenhagen later this month, is among the latest to challenge the Web’s basic premise of encouraging the free flow of information through linking.

Seems to me that the people who oppose linking (deep or otherwise) want the benefit of the Web without understanding the very nature of the Web. The Link is the thing. No link(ing), no Web.