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Hi, I have a little problem. Someone (Screen nickname: voltages 15 years old from Ireland Model name: Top Fueler) stole the picture of my modell, the "lego mad max interceptor" and posted it in the lego theme builders gallery. (as i did 1 year ago, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Read this post and the thread of replies: (URL) didn't quite know how to contact you (I think), but the matter has been raised with TLC, and a not very satisfactory result obtained. ++Lar (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I just read the thread - this situation is disgusting. It's bad enough that some scumbag punk (or worse, adult) would steal the photo (and hence the credit for creation) of someone else's model, but for TLC to seemingly regard it as a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Steve, I believe some people are looking into it. This involves a pilgrimage to Enfield Connecticut. But I'll let them discuss it when they return. Gary Istok (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) An update of sorts: I was the one who made the pilgrimage, and the other parties who would have come unfortunately weren't able to make it. Their legal dept (I met with the intellectual property lawyer) is very aware and very concerned with (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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A few relativly simple ideas concerning picture piracy. A) Why not make lcad bricks that are not removable so that models could contain permanent initials of the author. this could also be done by making dat files so that they are read only. this (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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Sorry if this sounds harsh--it isn't meant to be. (...) One of the great thing about the DAT file format is that it's plain text. How can you make part of a text file unremovable? Secondly, lego.com never deals with DAT files, so this would solve no (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) never (...) Yeah. But if Artemis ever does become a reality - the new file format could be encoded and a 'parts author status' could be granted and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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well youll probably be shocked but let me thank you. It was just a thought to throw into the arena. Please realize that my technical knowledge exists in the realm of litle to none in technical formatting matters. There is no easy solution to this if (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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One of the beauties of the 5x5 pixel idea is that there is no cost. It would simply be a small selection of pixels that would be put into the image by the author into a field of like colored pixels. this allows for about 32 million different (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think this solution loses more than is gained. Open file formats are a good thing and it'd be a shame to lose that -- especially when it'd be easy to "fix" any image with a graphics program anyway. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The problem with this kind of mark is that it's easily lost if the the image is resized or even jpeg encoded. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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