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

[Jim Peters]

Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > ... Perhaps in print the term "copy protection" should always be in
> > quotation marks. In speech, perhaps we can say "so-called copy
> > protection", or use some gesture to indicate the falsehood of the
> > term.
> 
> Those sound good, and I'm sure each of us will come up with our own
> ways and means of signalling the irony of the wording.  

Okay, I'll go with that idea.  In fact I wrote a letter to Trading
Standards B'ham yesterday to back up my phone call, and I tried the
idea.  I think it helps a lot.  After introducing the term as
"so-called" and in quotes, it was easy to switch to other terms such
as `modified', `corrupt' and so on.

> We have a huge diversity of tastes and preferences for how we want to
> denigrate stuff they call `copy-protected', so finding a collectively
> acceptable single term to use instead would be ... difficult.  On the
> other hand, we can exploit that diversity: each of us gives the public
> another angle on the evils of `so-called copy-protection'.  

I say go with this idea.  I'm going to experiment with modifying the
gentle-reader leaflet based on this approach.

Jim

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