This means that the ISPs assume that the authors of the resources know that someone is
linking directly to them.  How can the ISPs know about a direct link without browsing
the
whole web?
Brendan Ryan

Ken wrote:

> direct violation of their ISP's TOS. For
> example XOOM and geocities directly forbid linking directly to files on
> pages they provide space for. You run the risk of making it so that
> these page providers will pull the accounts of the people whos files you
> are linking to.

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