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Re: Surely this is not legal
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:29:14 GMT
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David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Richard W. Schamus writes:
> > In lugnet.lego.direct, Rose Regner writes:
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=533115033
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> > It probably isn't illegal. It's just not very smart, especially for the
> > person(s) buying the item. Considering that most of the instruction are
> > available from www.brickshelf.com and, (I'm only speculating here and am not
> > in possession of any information that directly confirms or denies this
> > speculation,) that it would be easy enough to mine Brickshelf for the images
> > used in the item described. Just a thought.
> It's got a high stupidity factor. You could simply get the images free for
> yourself off of brickshelf. The only way I can see that this might be of
> some value to someone is if they don't have high-speed internet and want
> local copies of the images since it would save them from downloading the
> images. And even if this were the case, it's not too likely that someone
> would want to bother spending the money on the item + shipping and handling,
> etc, unless they weren't informed (didn't know about brickshelf, etc) or
> just had the money to throw around.
It would make sense for many Europeans that pay connection charges on a time
basis - S&H may end up being FAR less than the connect charges to download them.
Of course, a full dump of Brickshelf would take several CDs - one of these days,
I'm going to do that, or just store them on a dedicated hard drive.
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| (...) Agreed, but for MOST people (which is what I was trying to say) it's pretty useless. That's not to say there aren't exceptions to the rule. Kinda like shell promo sets selling for ridiculous prices or some such. It'd be pretty stupid for ME to (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I'm going to kinda agree with Geoffrey here. This COULD be illegal, except I don't think Lego will care, really, unless this turns into some sort of lucrative market. The images presented are under Lego's copyright. Lego has asked that no sets (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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