[free-sklyarov] picketting Adobe?

[Derek Balling]

At 4:50 PM -0700 7/18/01, Klepht wrote:
>  >>>>> "NM" == Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> writes:
>
>     NM>	What would we demonstrate?
>
>     NM>	After the DeCSS protest outside of the Sony Metreon in
>     NM> San Francisco, I have become soured on the notion of protests.
>
>So, don't come. But please stop trying to convince everyone that
>protests don't work. Try telling the NAACP, Act Up!, the UFW and
>countless other organizations that street protests don't work.
>

Street protests work, where the "masses" can understand easily and 
relate to the issue involved. I don't have to "Be Gay" to understand 
gay rights activists. I don't have to be black to understand that 
"Yeah, we oppressed people in the past, and some people still do it 
today".

DMCA violations are something the people "don't understand", by and 
large. Around HERE, in our cloistered little high tech environs, 
there may be a larger-than-normal understanding, but the masses don't 
understand it all.

They DON'T work, as evidenced by WTO protests, if the masses DON'T 
understand. Was there any huge uproar from the masses after the WTO 
protests? Did the people rise up and scream "never again!"  ..

No. They bitched about the traffic problems it caused.

D

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