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| | | (...) IMO, the main great thing about Brickshelf is that it is free. It allows just about anyone to share their LEGO pictures. But, if membership fees are necessary to support the site, then perhaps you could use membership to turn off banner ads, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | (canceled) —Amy Hughes
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| | | | | Re: Brickshelf L.L.C. —Ray Sanders
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| | | | (...) A few days before the change at BrickShelf, I happened to be looking at the server stats. IIRC, the daily usage from the prior *day* was something like 25GB of traffic. Most hosting sites stop quoting at 100GB/month, so extrapolating from (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickshelf L.L.C. —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | (...) You hit the nail right on the head. The hosting does cost thousands of dollars per month. That had been subsidised entirely by my employer (who also used the bandwidth, rack space and servers). This new situation (employer trying not to go out (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf L.L.C. —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | (...) This in mind - I don't think there is a legal issue with charging for the service of making copyrighted material _available_. The same as the POV license saying you can include POV on a CD so long as what you charge for the CD covers your (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickshelf L.L.C. —Grant Giandonato
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| | | | | | "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:Gs45GF.2s2@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) like 25GB (...) extrapolating (...) messed (...) free (...) dollars (...) used the (...) not to (...) How about selling directly to LEGO? I wonder if (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickshelf L.L.C. —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | (...) A lot for an individual, but presumably chicken feed for TLG, since I assume the people who use brickshelf are some of TLG's best customers. While I wouldn't mind TLG paying to run brickshelf, I'm not sure I'd like them to run it themselves, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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