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

[phil hunt]

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:26 pm, Edward Welbourne wrote:
>
> > ... 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'=20

If we can do this, it will of course be best -- and it shouldn't
be too hard to do it, most people are cynical about large companies
to an extent.=20

I think this is the way to go, and I withdraw my suggestion that
we use the term "copy-prevention".


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