[free-sklyarov] Copyright Contradictions

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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:30:39PM -0400, Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
> > These "skeptics" are unconvincable, and there's no reason to base
> > anything on their reaction. ...
>
> 	Well, what works? I must admit I've not had a great deal of
> success myself. Maybe there's nothing we can do. I don't claim to be
> an expert at such convincing. I'm only sharing empirical problems I've
> encountered from my own experiences in trying to convince skeptical
> people. If the world is divided into the unconvertable, and the choir
> singing they're-coming-to-take-us-away, that's disheartening.
Well, history shows there are no 'unconvincable' people. There are people
who employ logic and thinking to form their views. These are obviously
always convincable to degree of conming to reasonable solution. On the
other hand there are pople, who don't use logic and thiinking to form
their opinion. These people don't have tools to form opinion, and thus
have to borrow opinion from somebody else. Thus whatever their authority
says, they will just repeat. The question then is what kind of authorities
can we find for groups of such people, and in what ways can we influence
such authorities.
1. Youth. People who listen to music, watch Hollywood movies, etc. (Almost
wrote read books...) Primary authority of interest, I would say, is
artists in this case. Get some pop star say on stage he/she wants kids to
trade MP3's of her songs on gnutella... Imagine results... Second
authority is parents... Well, not much we can do here, as many of them
will belong to 'skeptics', and were they don't, there is probably no need
to worry about children. Teatchers. This is important group to think
about. If there are any teatchers reading this, think how can you engage
children in this debate. This will also engage parents, of course, which
in turn will get lot more people aware and thinking...
2. Think of some other group of people, who bwlong to 'skeptics' category,
and try to come up with possible authorities for them.

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