[Free-sklyarov-uk] concrete examples

[joss at supportwizard.com]

> Message: 11
> From: phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: free-sklyarov-uk at xenoclast.org
> Subject: Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:54:43 +0100
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> On Thursday 09 August 2001  1:20 am, Kieran Barry wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > <smile>
> > Do you care about free speech?
> > </smile>
> 
> The question's good, but a bit abstract. The best way is to try=20
> different approaches and see what works best.

I would recommend keeping things as concrete as possible, examples
are better than abstractions, especially examples people care about.

If, as is planned, we get a law like this in the UK, SKY will be able to
make it impossible for you to use your VCR. They might want to do this
to stop you from skipping adverts because that's where they get their
revenue. "Is that what you want, 'cos that's what'll 'appen" ( Curtesy
of Harry Enfield).

Publishers will release books in encrypted form, and make it impossible
to do things you currently take for granted, like photocopying a couple
of pages.
Dmitriy was thrown into a federal jail with no bail for talking about
how to
circumvate these restrictions.

Film companies will make DVDs that will register with the first DVD
player they
play on, so from then on your DVD's will only play on your 
DVD player to irradicate the second hand market which cuts into their
profits.
If you buy a new DVD player, you will have to replace all your DVDs.

Record companies will release CDs which you can't copy, so if you want
to have
a version to play in your car, you will have to buy two copies.

Software companies will restrict their software to only run on one
computer.
They will justify this by saying that it prevents "piracy" but then when
you buy a new computer, you will have to buy new software too.

Actually, companies have the right to do these things already, but
people
have the right to try and get around these restrictions. What these
companies
want is make it illegal to even try to avoid the restriction.