[Free-sklyarov-uk] New gentle-reader leaflet, plus Chuck's
variant on AD's leaflet
Jason Clifford
jason at uklinux.net
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:54:30 +0000 (GMT)
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Jim Peters wrote:
> > Generally I think it is fine, but I wonder, should we really be using
> > our opponents' propaganda term "copy protection"? IMO it sounds better
> > (and is more accurate) to say "copy prevention".
>
> Well, we can talk about copy-protection and copy-protected CDs, or we
> can talk about copy-prevention and copy-prevented CDs. It sounds
> weird, but I could get used to it. (However, we've always talked
> about write-protected disks, haven't we ?)
I think both approaches are incorrect. The correct term should be "access
prevention" or something similar so as to make it completely clear that
these affect legitimate access/use of the disc.
Jason