[sklyarov-chicago] Monday the 30th Plans

[Michael Cannon]

Bob,

Keep in mind the 'elevator talk' and 'seven words'
rules of presentation.  Keep it VERY zen, yet easy for
the non-geek to understand.  You'll only have five to
seven seconds to hook them and get them to accept a
pamphlet.

It will be the rare grantee (the person you're
interfacing with) who will give you more time than
that.

Mike
--- Bob <bobn@interaccess.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Cannon said:
> 
> "
> Now, what do we say as a group to engage the public
> and help them to understand the purpose of standing
> out in the hot Sun, stopping them in the street and
> taking up their valuable time?
> "
> 
> Here's my take on explaining this:
> 
> "
>  Suppose you bought a house, but on taking
> posession, found a door with
> a lock on it that required you to pay each time you
> passed through it in
> either direction?  You "own" the house but are
> denied any use of it
> without making addiotnal payments ad infinitum. 
> Further imagine that,
> even with payment, only you could open the door and
> that this ability was
> non-transferable.  Finally, when you went to engage
> a locksmith to remove
> this thing, you found none would, because they faced
> jail terms if they
> did so.  Tools for you to remove it yourself were
> unavailable for the same
> reason.  This is what DMCA makes possible.
> " 
> 
> I am not a lawyer, so I may havwe commited some
> error of logic here.
> 
> I think this where DVDs and other content are going.
>  (eBooks would
> already be there if Adobe weren't incompetent.  DVDs
> aren't there now
> becasue of DeCSS, but that only helps geeks.  For
> most people, DVDs don't
> represent owned content antymore.)
> 
> I understand that some DVDs show up with ads for
> 'coming attractions (no
> I'm not talking about porn) that the machines will
> not let you
> fast-forward over.  If this is true, this may also
> be an illustration that
> hits home. 
> 
> 
> - Bob Niederman
> 
> 
> 
> 
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