The administrators of the Keyboard Forum at Harmony Central said they were directly contacted by Yamaha and asked to remove the cross-post of the Tyros II images. The guy who actually cross-posted the pix was never contacted (that was me).

If Yamaha didn't want their prototype keyboard seen then I still don't understand why they allowed the keyboard to be used at a performance and photographed, unless it was stolen. If the pix had been taken inside the factory and smuggled out illegally then that would be a clear infringement of Yamaha's product secrecy, but that didn't appear to be the situation in this case. Yamaha's good representatives could've come forth and provided a little explanation as to what happened, either here or at HC where they also participate, but I guess they are content to just look like they've lost control over the release of their products.

The draconian impression remains the same - Yamaha can and will use it's influence to have open forum posts it doesn't approve of removed, and that is an infringment on the concept of an open forum.

[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 03-18-2005).]