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Re: Enough already
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lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 22 Dec 1999 06:57:42 GMT
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@IHATESPAMsuperonline.com>
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote in message
news:386012cd.4018597@lugnet.com...
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 03:36:32 GMT, "Tony Kilaras" <kilaras@speedus.com>
> wrote:
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> > You know, this is what's so laughable about the whole situation. Uh, • HELLO
> > THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE. Copyright laws are a relic from the
> > pre-Internet days. While I agree that brickshelf.com is very convenient,
> > the suggestion that LEGO could get rid of scans is absurd, so they should • do
> > what software makers did a long time ago and give it up.
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> Software makers have hardly "given up".
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> Do you know how much money goes from MS to BSA every year? How many
> millions of warez CDs get confiscated every month?
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> Jasper
I look up confiscate from dictionary.com (I didn't know it) and seen that:
"Seized and appropriated by the government to the PUBLIC USE" . I love MS
sometimes..:-)
Selçuk
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Heh. The "for the public use" meaning is pretty much gone these days. As far as I know, it pretty much solely means the second definition: "2. To seize by or as if by authority". (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)
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