The worst thing that is happening, is that the power of the webmaster is slowly taken away. People have already been jailed for linking to the "wrong" sites, while themselves have nothing illegal on their site.

In the future, webmasters will be forced to inspect every link on their webpage. This can prove very hard, since the content of the linked site can change very rapidly. Also, if the site is a forum, the webmaster will be responsible for every link the members post.

This is to prevent copyright infringement, but the way it is done, will basically interfere a lot with the webaster's work. It will make links less common, which is a shame, since linking is how the web is tied together.

I belong to a few forums who already play on the safe side, they allow NO QUOTES, and NO LINKS. It saddens me that is the way we're going.

The hunt for pirates is slowly disintegrating the whole Internet.