[free-sklyarov] picketting Adobe?

[Declan McCullagh]

Pardon me for being cynical (or, perhaps, informed about what works in DC),
but let me humbly suggest it is not entirely clear that this anti-DMCA
protest changed many minds on Capitol Hill:

http://www.mccullagh.org/image/7/dmca-protesters-1.html

-Declan


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:01:03PM -0700, Derek Balling wrote:
> 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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