[Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail

[phil hunt]

On Thursday 09 August 2001  9:34 am, Dan Ackroyd wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Clifford [mailto:jason at uklinux.net]
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Julian T J Midgley wrote:
> > > Yes - I noticed that several seem to have much higher than
> >
> > average success
> >
> > > rates last Friday - what tactics/opening lines etc. did you use
> > > to persuade people to stop?
> >
> > I had people approaching me (or rather the group of us and I
> > stepped out
> > to talk to them).
>
> Having placards to wave around definitely gets peoples interest,
> and makes them actually want to hear what you have to say, which
> makes approaching them
> a lot easier.
>
> At least in London, people have become very good at dodging people
> trying to hand out
> flyers as they're usually irrelevant to them.

Agreed.

I think merely passing a flyer in someone's direction is unlikely to
be sucessful, since most people just ignore them. Better is to=20
start by talking to them, getting them interested (or at least,
a bit inquisitive), then giving them the flyer.

A good opener might be "Excuse me, I'd like to ask you a question
<pause> Do you think that it should be a crime to help blind people=20
read electronic books?"

Or (now Dmitry's on bail, we should be more concerned about the DMCA/
EUCD than that particular case): "Excuse me, did you know that CD
producers are planning to rip off consumers by overcharging?" (and
then go on to explain how the EUCD will prevent circumvention of
any CD region coding scheme. Ditto for DVDs. This approach might
be useful outside HMV or Virgin Megastore.

Another approach would be to do a survey, ask some of these and other
questions. Then give the interviewee a leaflet if they are interested.
The majority of the public know little of copyright law, but I'm
sure they'll be on our side when they learn how the corporations
plan to rip them off.

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