[free-sklyarov] picketting Adobe?

[Jeme A Brelin]

On 19 Jul 2001, Klepht wrote:
> If the story on CNN ("FBI Arrests Russian Hacker") is heavily slanted,
> let's get the story "Broad-based Rights Coalition Demands Fair Use
> Rights" up there instead. We can get the story "Americans Think DMCA
> Goes Too Far" up there.
> 
> It's not really that hard. The only way to lose is to capitulate
> before we start.

Are you new to anti-corporate activism?

CNN is a MEDIA COMPANY.  In fact, CNN is AOL/Time-Warner.  They, along
with Disney, Bertelsmann, Viacomm, et al. are the ones that WROTE the
DMCA!

The media companies WANT the DMCA.  Their interest in fairness, an
informed public, etc. ALL take a back seat to their profit interest...
which is best served by supporting the DMCA.

When profits are the only thing that matter (or, as the Libertarians like
to put it, the first priority [so, duh, when do you consider the second?  
when profits are the same either way... i.e. never]), freedom, society,
community, and culture all go out the window.

SOME Americans think the DMCA goes too far... Americans, in general, have
maybe heard the name and that's about it.  It's not that their stupid or
sheep or any other elitist tripe.  It's that they CANNOT be informed about
information issues because the media companies are a vested interest (and,
obviously, the only source of information... after all, they ARE the
media).

I suggest y'all pick up a copy of Rich Media, Poor Democracy.  While I
don't agree with McChesney 100%, he makes some points very clearly.

In privatizing all public life, we've eliminated the public sphere and
turned everything into the market sphere.  The market is not the only
legitimate means of human interaction and we need to start encouraging
other forms and stop using market metaphors for everything.

I don't have rights "as a consumer"... I have a rights as an individual, a
human being, and a citizen.

J.
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