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Subject: 
2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:19:24 GMT
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Without any great surprise, the requests and subsequent rants to have Huw
Millington remove his scans of the 2000 dealer catalogue only drew even
greater attention to them.

As a consequence, a quick look around the newsgroups shows several sites are
now hosting those same pictures, all no doubt collected out of folks Internet
caches, once the realised what they had.

Offers to e-mail them abound.

People are offering to host the pictures if people e-mail them to them

So far, I have not seen any requests (at least in public) to have these other
sites remove their scans, yet they are announcing their existence through
exactly the same channels as did Huw originally.

So Huw puts in the hard work, and everyone else gets the hits.

So rather than have effect that the folks who asked for them to be removed had
in mind, there is now 10 times as much publicity and many more sites hosting
the pictures they sought to remove

as Sir Cliff Richard has found, the best way to get to number one in the
charts is to get your record banned (sorry only the brits will understand)

regards
lawrence



Message has 7 Replies:
  Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
 
(...) It's a question of trying to do the right thing. Most of the people who are hosting the pictures will probably not have read the entire thread, or skimmed it. So we can't expect them to *fully* understand the situation, or even do the right (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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  Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
 
Just some minor nits...I putting this into .debate because it feels confrontational to me, and I'm responding in kind. Even if it's not confrontational *at* me. (...) The only rants I saw were people jumping on the "dictatorship" bandwagon. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
 
(...) Huw made a mistake, but he also had the intelligence to realize this and the moral integrity to do something about it. I don't think you're going to see many requests from people asking other sites to remove the scans because at this point (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
 
(...) We've heard of it here (.nl) as well.. but really, it's not banned. It's just not pop music. I mean, really.. Playlist: Metallica, _Unforgiven II_, Cliff Richard, _The Our Father to the tune of Auld Lang Syne[1]_, Marilyn manson, _Kill Them (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
 
(...) Why don't we all get ourselves to .off-topic.debate, and talk about a nice uncontroversial subject like gun control, or mormons, or email spam, or something? Jasper (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
 
(...) Guess this will answer a lot of questions in the retailer catalog scans debate then! regards lawrence (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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