Copyrights revisited (Score 1)

If placing links (not altering actual contents of text) is not a copyright violation regard this:

It is not only text that is/may be copyrighted material. Layout and images are as well. As a designer I would be angry if the layout of my pages were changed, a change may include other colours on text that I did not intend to use. What is the next step; Making imagemaps with links on my copyrighted pictures? Maybe a program that scans an image on my page and recognise if there is a can of coca-cola in it and replaces it with a can of pepsi instead? The program is not really altering the picture/text itself. Only adjusts the way the user sees it. That doesn't make it less wrong. My copyrighted material is still violated.

"It is up to you to install it" is not really a good argument for me. We all know what is going to happen if it is not stopped early enough. As MS (and in the future loads of other companies) want it as a part of the Operating System it will in the future not only "link" web-pages but probably also: installation programs, games and authoring tools (such as a text-editor). This scenario is far to easy to imagine...

Gives me the creeps.