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Re: Cats and pigeons...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:15:50 GMT
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> > 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.
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 that if I had a good search engine, I could grab those images off the
lego site without using the (copping) interface that TLG uses. (if you are
wondering, I get a little mad when it takes 30-60 sec for me to open a page,
and I have a cable modem...I dread to think what it is like with a 14.4 modem)
> You could copy those images to geocities and link to them and they'd still
> be leaks.
No. TLG has tactly published the images. They are on the "public" side of a
firewall, hence they are public. If you dig around enough at www.lego.com with
a text browser only, you would be able to find those images without hacking any
files. Therefore they are in the public domain.
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> 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.
OK fine. Untill they remove the jpgs and -ask- you to remove the links, I fail
to see any reason why you should ostrasize someone for posting links to some
fools mistake. It is no worse than the people who were trying to get spacs
shuttles for 7 pounds, or the people who post to the hottest starwars links
either.
Until the products are actually announced, isn't it still a cheap
> leak?
It might be "cheap", but it is the fault of the techs for not knowing how to
edit web pages. I have a crummy web page which sees too little of my time, and
I know not to put anything that I don't want up on that page.
James Powell
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| (...) 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. (...) You could copy those images to geocities and link to them and they'd (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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