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Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:19:28 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Michel Harnois writes:
> The fact that Lego's customer service has up until recently directed some of
> its callers to the Brickshelf's "Instructions and catalog scans", would, in my
> mind, seriously weaken their case against Brickshelf L.L.C. should the
> latter reinstate the online scan database with banner advertising. Lego has
> implicitly (tacitly) created a business-like relationship with Brickshelf
> and made it a pseudo-satellite entity within the Lego Group. I think it is
> Lego's responsibility to do one of the following:
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> 1) Finance Brickshelf's bandwith and maintenance cost;
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> 2) Take the bull by the horns and integrate the scans database to its own
> website (with Mr. Loch heading the project maybe?)
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> In my opinion the Lego Group should promptly step foward and take action to
> help solve the situation. There is a strong demand out there for plans and
> catalog scans and I dont understand why Lego would not get involved. It
> would be mutualy advantageous to both them and the community.
I agree with you.
One other possibility that comes to my mind would be "de-centralize" the
resources: Brickshelf would have *links to* the instruction scans, that
would be hosted by volunteers in their web sites/pages(what if every LUGNET
member could lend some 5 MB? Would that be enough to solve the problem?)
Pedro
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