Slashdot Mirror
DefectiveByDesign Supporters to Call on RIAA Execs
johnsu01 writes "DefectiveByDesign.org is organizing a call-in campaign for today. People around the country will be calling high-ranking RIAA officials to deliver the message that DRM is an unacceptable restriction on the freedom of consumers and citizens. DefectiveByDesign will provide the numbers to call when you sign up. This action should attract the people who thought that Apple was not a good target because it is the RIAA that requires DRM and those who think that wearing HazMat suits is obnoxious. Everyone can vote with their dollars, but that doesn't tell the RIAA why they aren't getting the dollars. With a few thousand people signed up already, they will undoubtedly know after today."
People around the country will be calling high-ranking RIAA officials to deliver the message that DRM is an unacceptable restriction on the freedom of consumers and citizens. What about the freedom of citizens to not be spammed by (potentially abusive) phone calls? Or do those freedoms not apply to people we don't like? People really can't seem to be able to fight an intellectual battle in an honest and clean way. What is wrong with setting up websites which discuss the matter in an elevated manner and then letting individuals use that information as they please instead of micromanaging willing participants in schemes of dubious merit? Concentrating all the phone calls in one day seems puerile at best and reminiscent of a DoS attack at worst.
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
I'll have to remember that one...
"I want that new car, but I didn't have enough money, so I had no option but to take it."
"Those shoes look cool, but I don't have a credit card, so I had no option but to slip them under my jacket and walk out of the store."
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
Please post your home phone number so I can harrass you constantly until you admit you're wrong.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Make sure you sign up for my campaign too. I'll be dressing like Scrooge and marching up and down outside my local bank complaining about how they have more money than me and won't give me any. If we can get a thousand people dressed like me they're bound to give us lots of money don't you think? Banks are just so selfish!
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.