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Re: Best Lock instruction scans (Re: Best Lock Adverstising
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 03:37:01 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <386C3EE6.E1AEFDDE@voyager.net>...
> Tony Kilaras wrote:
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> > Anybody have any Best Lock instructions they can scan in? Some of the • sets
> > look quite nice.
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> Have they been out long enough to be out of production on some of the
> sets already? Seems to me (and I ain't speaking for anyone else, just
> myself here, you have to decide for yourself what is right, no matter
> how clear cut it seems to me) that scanning and passing around
> instructions is taking revenue away from the manufacturer. That's true
> whether it's TLC, Megablocks or BestLock.
As you may or may not know, I don't concern myself with copyright issues.
I'd just like to see Best Lock (or Megablocks or Tyco) instruction scans if
anyone has them.
> I see no reason to treat TLC better than the clones in this regard, no
> matter that the clones aren't as good as TLC. The principle remains the
> same, don't you think? Or maybe it's OK to cheat on your taxes, if only
> a little, just not a lot? (1)
I'm a tax consultant in "real life" so we can slap each other silly for days
over that one! :)
> Sometimes it's rather inconvenient to see everything as black and white
> as I do, because you can't just rationalize away the small stuff at the
> edges. Some may say "geez, it's only a few scans" but it's a matter of
> kind, not degree. I see it as clear cut wrong, unless someone were to
> secure some sort of clearance from BestLock. I can't very well expect
> people not to scan the instructions to my hopper and not pass them
> around if I'm not willing to afford the same protection to my
> competition, as it were...
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