[free-sklyarov] picketting Adobe?

[Mo DeJong]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Don Marti wrote:

> begin Mo DeJong quotation of Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:15:30PM -0700:
> 
> > Some posters mentioned the need for a good "hook"
> > that might get the media to cover a protest at
> > Adobe. How about an eBook burning?
> 
> Book burning == bad in most people's minds.  This is about the
> opposite of book burning -- book reading.

Book burning is a powerful image. One could claim that turning
a book into an eBook is the same as burning it. Either way
people could be losing access to the ideas in the book.

> And the second anyone starts a fire, message diluted, hazard created,
> they have a reason to break it up, bad things all the way around.
> 
> Please don't set anything on fire.  And in all other things, please
> be polite and on your best behavior.

Don, you are being too literal. Someone mentioned a projector
before. Why not incorporate that into a little program that
displayed a burning eBook? It is just an idea, I am not saying
it is a good one.

My point was that when staging an event that you would like the
mass media to cover, you have to simplify the message. Few
people will understand a protest over encryption and the DMCA.
On the other hand, "eBooks burned outside Adobe Headquarters"
might interest a few readers.

cheers
Mo