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Re: Cats and pigeons...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:47:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, James Powell writes:
> It seems that there are no links from the "set database" to the images yet.
> The images still work, but I could not find any that were not listed
> (perhaps I am being web stupid however...)
That's what I thought (that's what I'd read elsewhere just prior to Remy's
post): They're not in the set database, but the images are sitting there
like sitting ducks.
> I still stand by the right to post links to pages on the 'wrong' side of
> firewalls. If the page is in the public domain, then that is it...and
> LUGNET should not be chastising people for posting links to them either.
You could copy those images to geocities and link to them and they'd still
be leaks.
Just because the stupid server is serving the JPEGs and their techs don't
(apparently) know the first thing about how to protect access to them from
"prying eyes" doesn't mean that it's not still invasive to their corporate
privacy. Until the products are actually announced, isn't it still a cheap
leak?
--Todd
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Cats and pigeons...
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| (...) Nope. No intent to protect. Now, if you took a stance that said that you wanted everyone to guess what TLG really meant, that would be different (and impossible to enforce). But TLG is not demonstrating intent to protect. Given how much you (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Cats and pigeons...
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| (...) This assumes that we know what their policy is for announcing sets. Getting a 2000 catalog in a Snowspeeder set isn't really "announcing" the 2000 sets, either, is it? One must assume, absent other statements, that putting the jpegs on the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Cats and pigeons...
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| (...) Yes, stand by it all you want. You have however, just vindicated what I said. Namely, if it is public domain (IE on this side of a firewall at www.lego.com or any other site), then it is by definition in the public domain. I am willing to bet (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Cats and pigeons...
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| (...) But they WERE in the set database. I saw them at home this morning, and loaded up several of the graphics. Here in the good ole' USA. If you would have been up to buy DYA sets, you'd have seen them too ;-) (...) No. If their web designers are (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Cats and pigeons...
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| It seems that there are no links from the "set database" to the images yet. The images still work, but I could not find any that were not listed (perhaps I am being web stupid however...) I still stand by the right to post links to pages on the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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