[sklyarov-chicago] Protest Organization

[Michael Cannon]

More action/street theatre...good thoughts!  Keep 'em
coming!

Mike
--- "Phillip J. Birmingham" <phillip@bigscary.com>
wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2001 12:49:00 -0700, jason pellerin wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Delurking to present a possibly dumb idea that
> just
> > popped into my head:
> > 
> > > Remember, in leafletting/banner protest (without
> > > walkabout), the goal is to engage the public in
> > > discussion/conversation and give them a leaflet,
> > > while
> > > getting an agreement from them as to the
> injustice
> > > of
> > > the situation.
> > 
> > That makes me think of how awfully easy it is to
> > violate the DMCA -- in fact, by passing out a
> leaflet
> > that included the source of one of the perl decss
> > scripts, I think you *would* be violating the
> DMCA.
> > And so would the person who took the leaflet,
> > especially if she showed it to someone else
> > (trafficking in a circumvention device... )
> 
> 	Here's a (possibly lame) idea I had: hand out
> books.
> 
> 	Buy a few dozen from the quarter bin at the nearest
> used bookstore, and
> offer people one.  Tell them (through a leaflet,
> good patter, telepathy,
> whatever) that because of the first sale doctrine,
> since you paid for
> thebook, you can give it away.  Point out that due
> to the DMCA,
> publishers can set it up so that you can't give
> books away when you're
> done with them, and it's illegal to take steps to
> exercise the right
> they're trying to take away.
> 
> 	This may be muddying the waters too much, and
> someone mentioned to me
> that there's a danger of saying something just plain
> wrong unless you
> get your message down just right.  I'm starting to
> think, though, that
> it's important to show people what rights will be
> taken away, and what
> annoyances will be inflicted on them with the DMCA's
> assistance, and I'm
> looking for good ways to do that.
> 
> 	What say ye?
> 
> 	Regards,
> 	Phillip
> 


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