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Understanding Leaks
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:57:24 GMT
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Hi All,
This may have been covered before, but as a relative newbie, I'd like to
better understand what is meant when people talk about "leaks." I've
noticed a number of folks talk about leaks in both LUGNET and FBTB, and
gotten the impression that the administrators of both sites frown on leaks
highly. I totally understand and support this, since the last thing we
would want to do as LEGO fans is to undermine TLC's ability to succeed in
the marketplace by publishing information that they wish to keep secret. I
wouldn't be surprised to learn that competitors and clone brands pay
attention to LEGO fan sites to try to get a scoop on what TLC is up to. My
problem is this: How do I know a leak when I see one?
I have four examples below. I mean no disregard to the authors of these
posts and assume none of them are actually leaks. But as something of a
newbie it's not clear to me where the line falls between things like this
and actual leaks.
Example 1: A prediction about 8460 becoming the classic 8431...
http://news.lugnet.com/technic/?n=7594
Example 2: Pictures of new 2003 sets...
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=1804
Example 3: A fan from Japan sees an AT-AT at a LEGO show...
http://news.lugnet.com/starwars/?n=14586
Example 4: The Marz Distribution pictures that have recently been
widespread across LUGNET news...
http://news.lugnet.com/year/2003/?n=54
Can anyone better explain how to tell a leak when dealing with material that
doesn't come (or seem to come) directly from a TLC source.
Thanks,
Paul D.
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Message has 5 Replies:
 | | Re: Understanding Leaks
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| Paul, The policy at fbtb is that there should be no discussion of leaks. The policy at lugnet, on the other hand, is pretty much anything goes. So feel free to discuss these here at Lugnet, but refrain from doing so on fbtb. As to your examples, the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Understanding Leaks
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| (...) Tough question. A leak is an item of information that is NOT meant to be released. Most, if not all of your examples that you cited were meant to be released to, at least initially, to the dealers who sell LEGO. As such, I wouldn't list these (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Understanding Leaks
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| (...) I'm not so sure about this. With the exception of Shifty bricks, I can't think of any current clone brands that do much copying from LEGO, certainly not to the extent that they'd lurk around fan sites to cull secret, leaked information. What (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Understanding Leaks
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| (...) Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread. Most of this is a lot clearer now although there is still a little cloudiness that probably can never be avoided. I'd like to again express to the authors of the four posts I cited that I did not (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Understanding Leaks
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| In the "real world" outside of us LEGO enthusiasts, "leaks" are almost always pieces of information that are deliberately distributed outside the intended audience. The "leaks" discussed on LUGNET are really more like "seepage", i.e., information (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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