2019-08-29 - The LEGO Group: Unauthorized Use of the LEGO Group Intellectual Property - kiwifarms.net [Case #652509]

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This is duck-fuckin' hilarious. Of course, I'm a big fan of Mega Blocks AND Lego...I'm a blasphemer who builds with whatever I can get my hands on. And Lego is losing ground when it comes to the Building Block war, as Mega Blok is actually making quality parts now, and more and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon since they can't hold a monopoly on the building block patent any longer.
 
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Lego is such a shitshow of a company now. I've been a fan for the better part of 30 years but in the past five years or so I've lost most of the respect I had for them. They've replaced the unique original ideas that used to define them with soulless licensed cashgrabs. The quality of their plastics and printings have gone downhill rapidly. They're more concerned with passing themselves off as a progressive eco-friendly company than they are with providing decent products. The past few years I've been enjoying Mega Construx way more than anything Lego has been putting out. If you went back 15 years and told me things would be reversed this dramatically I would have laughed.

tl;dr FUCK Lego. Bring back Bionicle for more than two years and then MAYBE you will be shown mercy.
 
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Kacho said:
Lego is such a shitshow of a company now. I've been a fan for the better part of 30 years but in the past five years or so I've lost most of the respect I had for them. They've replaced the unique original ideas that used to define them with soulless licensed cashgrabs. The quality of their plastics and printings have gone downhill rapidly. They're more concerned with passing themselves off as a progressive eco-friendly company than they are with providing decent products. The past few years I've been enjoying Mega Construx way more than anything Lego has been putting out. If you went back 15 years and told me things would be reversed this dramatically I would have laughed.

tl;dr FUCK Lego. Bring back Bionicle for more than two years and then MAYBE you will be shown mercy.
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They still have the weird Lego star wars using the bionicle building system which has sparked several theories about a behind the scenes disney deal having something to do with Bionicle 2's weird shady early cancellation.
Then again, Lego has hinting at possibly bringing back blacktron for maybe over a fucking decade or so now, and never delivered.
Who knows, maybe the real reason the DMCA bot caught glimpse of kiwi farms wasn't lego star wars...
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Where living in times with honest liars, tough people crying and winning losers.
Someone's likely made a dangerous contraption out of a foolproof device at one point.
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You should have it connected, but the power switch on the power supply switched off.

That makes sure that the computer is grounded.
 
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Dear Internet Service Provider:

LEGO A/S, LEGO Juris A/S, LEGO System A/S and LEGO Systems, Inc. (collectively “the LEGO Group”) hold exclusive worldwide rights to the LEGO® intellectual property, including but not limited to LEGO, the LEGO logo and the Minifigure figurine. These assets are used to identify, advertise and promote the LEGO Group’s products and activities. These trademarks and copyrights (and various works incidental thereto) are protected around the world under U.S. and international trademark and copyright law.

The LEGO Group markets and sells its products and services through websites including shop.LEGO.com. The LEGO Group’s trademarks and copyrights are registered worldwide and include:

U.S. Registration Nos. 2060284 and 3440699 for the famous LEGO word mark.
U.S. Registration No. 4903968 for the Minifigure design
U.S. Registration No. VA0000655104 for the basic Minifigure

EU Registration Nos. EM02829463 and EM00039800 for the famous LEGO word mark.
EU Registration Nso.EM00050450 and EM00050518 for the Minifigure design

You are the Internet Service Provider to kiwifarms.net. This site uses the LEGO Group’s trademark(s) and/or copyright(s) in its content without authorization. This use falsely suggests the LEGO Group’s sponsorship or endorsement of the website and violates the LEGO Group’s exclusive rights.

Additionally, this use constitutes trademark infringement and unfair competition and violates your acceptable use policy as an Internet Service Provider.

We informed the registrant of our complaint, but were unable to resolve this issue. In addition to the legal action the LEGO Group may take against the registrant, we request that you immediately suspend the URLs.

Please reply to this email if you need additional information. We appreciate your assistance.

Sincerely,

The LEGO Group Brand Protection

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The post using these images is one of the best examples of fair use I
could hope for. The person goes, in detail, to describe and criticize
your products and handling of third party intellectual property in a way
that is both fair and would absolutely require the images to make his point.


I believe in good faith the articles in contention are used fairly. Send
servicing to this address.

913 Beal Pkwy NW
Suite A-1017
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547

Under penalty of perjury,
Joshua Moon
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Fangless fang strikes again!
 
Kacho said:
Lego is such a shitshow of a company now. I've been a fan for the better part of 30 years but in the past five years or so I've lost most of the respect I had for them. They've replaced the unique original ideas that used to define them with soulless licensed cashgrabs. The quality of their plastics and printings have gone downhill rapidly. They're more concerned with passing themselves off as a progressive eco-friendly company than they are with providing decent products. The past few years I've been enjoying Mega Construx way more than anything Lego has been putting out. If you went back 15 years and told me things would be reversed this dramatically I would have laughed.

tl;dr FUCK Lego. Bring back Bionicle for more than two years and then MAYBE you will be shown mercy.
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Hard agree, ever since they fucked over Bionicle twice I lost interest
 
My avatar shows I quite like Lego, wtf were these idiots thinking?
First thought were these autistic block avatars that looks like someone being mounted doggy style, but nah, "leaks". How stupid.

The supposed leaks has been covered on many platforms.
This is just retarded, there's nothing positive about going after your own autistic block building fanbase.
They are pulling a Nintendo here. I think the law division or whatever autistic Danish equivalent is useless and about to be closed, they just had to find some dumb shit online to take down and justify their existence.

Now DMCA my post you idiots.
Here's an actual released set, a Lego concentration camp.
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And then this should become an actual set, it should be on https://ideas.lego.com/#all
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DMCA'ing "leaks", go fuck yourself.
 
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I think you broke the machine on the other end, dinnae reckon it's used to people not buckling under so many paragraphs of bull.

Quick edit.
The part about their need to protect the trade secrets and all that nonsense, aye, they need to. They failed. They let their shit leak, and now it's out there regardless. Exactly how do they imagine other folk need to be beholden to agreements and contracts they haven't made or signed?
 
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Alba gu brath said:
Exactly how do they imagine other folk need to be beholden to agreements and contracts they haven't made or signed?
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People are always stupid when it comes to the Internet, even now. Remember that time when that college campus pepper sprayed all those people while sitting down and the college paid thousands to a company to try and fix their image but only made it 100 times worse?
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I'm guessing it's all about control, they feel like they have to do 'something' about the problem yet deep down they know they can't do fuck all about it.

With this LEGO situation, they're just used to throwing their weight around and watching people capitulate to their threatening emails.
 
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Sure someone mentioned the streisand effect earlier in the thread, you'd imagine they'd not worry about the vilified, doxing, stalking central to be exactly general public noticeable. Talk about dousing their mistakes in a good load of gasoline if this goes beyond anything other than their hurt fee fees.
 
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