Personman - Latest Comments on Free culture and lobbyists http://personman.com/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Brendon [Visitor] in response to: Free culture and lobbyists Thu, 20 May 2004 04:34:40 +0000 Brendon [Visitor] c577@http://personman.com/ <p>Ya, hope I didn&#8217;t come off sounding like I was trying to scold you, not my intent. I&#8217;m impressed by the amount of material on the subject you&#8217;ve been throwing up on the site.</p> <p>Getting people to read Lessig, in my opinion, is a good thing.</p> <p>Oh, and I&#8217;m kinda jealous that you managed to read the book on your PDA. I don&#8217;t know if I could pull that off.</p> Ya, hope I didn’t come off sounding like I was trying to scold you, not my intent. I’m impressed by the amount of material on the subject you’ve been throwing up on the site.

Getting people to read Lessig, in my opinion, is a good thing.

Oh, and I’m kinda jealous that you managed to read the book on your PDA. I don’t know if I could pull that off.

]]> http://personman.com/free_culture_and_lobbyists#c577 Danny [Visitor] in response to: Free culture and lobbyists Thu, 20 May 2004 02:29:03 +0000 Danny [Visitor] c576@http://personman.com/ <p>I agree that we have to be organized. I think the EFF is working on that. I&#8217;m just trying to explain this issue to my non-geek readers.</p> I agree that we have to be organized. I think the EFF is working on that. I’m just trying to explain this issue to my non-geek readers.

]]> http://personman.com/free_culture_and_lobbyists#c576 Brendon [Visitor] in response to: Free culture and lobbyists Wed, 19 May 2004 18:24:22 +0000 Brendon [Visitor] c575@http://personman.com/ <p>I think the time has come that the lobbyists on this side of the Free Culture debate (read: us) need to organize better. The slashdot and blog audience is already saturated with the knowledge, but Joe Average is not. I read a comment on /. about a guy who had a shot at an open mic with Valenti. Supposedly people came up to him after and went though the whole &#8220;that&#8217;s really interesting, I never thought of it that way&#8221; routine. It got me thinking that what EFF, FSF (Lessig in company now!) and similiarly interested communities need to do is agree on the top 5 points or stories to hammer on every time at every chance. Imagine if, rather than meandering, the /. crowd could have representatives at every public DRM/RIAA/MPAA/whatever forum that not only understood the broad issue, but had the goal to make sure the 5 points were brought up everywhere everytime. The more specific platform issues need to be tossed out the window for such an exercise too. 99% of people could care less that DVDs can&#8217;t be legally played under linux. MPAA history on the betamax, backup copies, region coding, and Disney reaping the public domain but not giving back have more universal appeal.</p> <p>I for one, think everytime Valenti or his cohorts speaks in public, his &#8220;Boston strangler&#8221; quote needs to be thrown back at them. They need to explain why we should believe them now when they&#8217;ve already proved their love for untrue hyperbolies so well.</p> <p>BTW, for those unfamiliar the strangler quote is as follows:</p> <p>&#8216;I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.&#8217;</p> I think the time has come that the lobbyists on this side of the Free Culture debate (read: us) need to organize better. The slashdot and blog audience is already saturated with the knowledge, but Joe Average is not. I read a comment on /. about a guy who had a shot at an open mic with Valenti. Supposedly people came up to him after and went though the whole “that’s really interesting, I never thought of it that way” routine. It got me thinking that what EFF, FSF (Lessig in company now!) and similiarly interested communities need to do is agree on the top 5 points or stories to hammer on every time at every chance. Imagine if, rather than meandering, the /. crowd could have representatives at every public DRM/RIAA/MPAA/whatever forum that not only understood the broad issue, but had the goal to make sure the 5 points were brought up everywhere everytime. The more specific platform issues need to be tossed out the window for such an exercise too. 99% of people could care less that DVDs can’t be legally played under linux. MPAA history on the betamax, backup copies, region coding, and Disney reaping the public domain but not giving back have more universal appeal.

I for one, think everytime Valenti or his cohorts speaks in public, his “Boston strangler” quote needs to be thrown back at them. They need to explain why we should believe them now when they’ve already proved their love for untrue hyperbolies so well.

BTW, for those unfamiliar the strangler quote is as follows:

‘I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.’

]]> http://personman.com/free_culture_and_lobbyists#c575 Sam Walton [Visitor] in response to: Free culture and lobbyists Wed, 19 May 2004 05:37:40 +0000 Sam Walton [Visitor] c574@http://personman.com/ <p>Yes, but what&#8217;s good for big business and lobbyists is usually good for &#8220;everyone else.&#8221;</p> Yes, but what’s good for big business and lobbyists is usually good for “everyone else.”

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