[Free-sklyarov-uk] New gentle-reader leaflet, plus Chuck's variant on AD's leaflet

[Edward Welbourne]

>> 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.

The last, `copy-prevented CDs', is rather clumsy.  Furthermore,
`copy-prevent' is no more accurate than `copy-protect' and still buys
into the enemy's lie - that this stuff prevents copying of the CD,
when in fact it merely restricts access so that the CD can only be
copied by those who already have the kit for real copyright abuse.

Alternatives:
  access-restricted (most accurate)
  copy-restricted (resonance between truth and the original)

> ... use the opposition's term, and then connect it with all our
> criticisms of this technology, rather than `boycott' it and leave
> people hearing the term `copy-protection' from other sources and not
> connecting it with what we were saying.

I would go with this too - albeit remembering, in each discourse, to
qualify at least one use of the term with a parenthetical reminder
that the phrase is double-speak, the medium isn't `protected' from
copying, the manufacturers have merely restricted the legal
purchasers' access to it.  Get the public associating `copy-protect'
with `rip-off' and don't worry too much about the pedantic damage to
Anglic - which is a fairly robust language, after all.

	Eddy.
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Who needs rhetorical questions?