VK decided to copy the entire Internet

Recently, a new functionality has appeared in the social network VKontakte - a preview of external links. As explained in the update group announcement, the external link opens in a pop-up (modal) window, contains text, images and other content. At the same time, “all unnecessary”, for example, advertising is cut from the external page. Innovation is not like everyone. The management of the newspaper Vedomosti has already managed to react, accusing VKontakte of copyright infringement.



The announcement also reported that the new functionality is still at the testing stage and is not available to all users. However, I already have a “View” button on some external links.

This is exactly the button that stands out among the rest of the information, so users will probably click on it, and not on a dull external link.



Content creators have something to resent, because “VKontakte” not only copies the text, but also saves it along with the pictures , which is why the visitor has no need to go to another site. A similar situation was outraged in "Vedomosti". The head of the Internet projects of this publication, Victor Saxon, said at the RIF + CIB 2012 conference that on Friday he would write a letter to the VKontakte administration demanding to remove this functionality, otherwise a lawsuit is not excluded.



In the meantime, content creators have to hope that the developers of the social network will not be able to write a universal parser of pages (now, apparently, the button is not on all links for exactly this reason).

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Update: an example of what the preview looks like + another from AHrEJI .