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Re: Enough already
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lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:59:43 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:00:41 GMT, "Robert M. Dye" <robdye@writeme.com>
wrote:
.
Paying the price of ingratitude could mean seeing ALL copyrighted material
come off the web. It could happen, and LEGO would be well within their
rights under copyright law to demand it.

They'd be in their rights to demand it.

It would not happen.

The web simply doesn't work that way. Did you miss the dozens of posts
screaming "someone email me the 2k dealer scans, I'll put them up"?

Not that it's necessarily entirely a good thing, but it is reality.

Jasper



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(...) Sure, when a company tries to stop the dissemination of information on the net, that information usually goes underground. But that's besides the point, in my opinion. I don't want to have to beg people to send me instruction scans by email, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)

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---...--- (...) And you got what you paid for. Bricks. And instructions. Paying the price of ingratitude could mean seeing ALL copyrighted material come off the web. It could happen, and LEGO would be well within their rights under copyright law to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)

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