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  Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
Last month at least 5 out of 8 pictures in the Theme Gallery have been stolen from known AFOLs. That has been discussed in Lugnet and can be found here: (URL) wrote 2 mails to TLC and got an answer, that they would react on it. But now the builder (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)  
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) found (...) now (...) all! (...) Gallery. (...) want us (...) Keep in mind that I Am Not A Lawyer :-) In my opinion, since TLC was informed (and acknowledged such information) about the nature of the photographs the AFOL's in question have a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) At this point my opinion is that we should look for a lawyer or law firm who would be willing to take this on. TLC has repeatedly demonstrated that they expect IMMEDIATE response from our community when their IP rights are violated here on (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
"Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message news:FzDvp7.1ur@lugnet.com... (...) found (...) now (...) all! (...) Gallery. (...) want us (...) When I look at it now the images are all broken links - are they actively doing something (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) I don't think so. Presently there should be new pictures but as long as I know the galleries, Lego was never able to update them without broken links for the first two days... Not very professional, if you ask me. Funny is some of the non (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) Or the Press. --Todd (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) all! (...) That's funny! Now TLC has removed the wrongnamed stolen Testarossa (which was a Mustang in fact) and has exchanged the model of the month against the next stolen picture: (URL) model with name "top fueler" has been created by Alex (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) Jumping in late here, but I think it stinks. Did anyone manage to snap screenshots of the stolen images being displayed at their site before they wiped them out at the end of the month and started fresh with this month's stuff? IMHO, it would (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FzKy7C.400@lugnet.com... (...) started (...) How about an Uncool Pirated Lego Pics of the Month site? -Rob. (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) Well, it is possible that they have set up a script that will automaticaly create that page, since there is no text that must be written or anything. Alan (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes: [snip] (...) Sorry no screenshots of the gallery with 5 pirated pictures, but 2 screenshots of the Theme Galleries winner of August taken today. It's quite funny they are both available at the same time. Check (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)

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