From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 9: 2:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E0437B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 09:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07026; Sat, 5 May 2001 10:02:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505095934.04417930@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 10:02:15 -0600 To: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. In-Reply-To: <15091.47616.961220.499572@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504213229.043f5460@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504122121.04699dc0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> <15090.43795.549818.410213@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504213229.043f5460@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:29 AM 5/5/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >Nah - I'd rather try and educate them as to what their peers in that >industry are doing - sometimes via associations that they are members >of. In other words, you'll go to those associations and tell them that they're "e-vile." That'll help a whole lot, I assure you. >> >It's the major >> >content publishers - Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM and their ilk - that >> >are taking away the rights of the public. That they also make life >> >difficult for small publishers is undoubtedly just gravy to them. >> One way in which the few nasty large publishers make life difficult >> for smaller ones is that they turn loose rabid folk like yourself, who >> then do their work for them. > >Actually, the rabid zealots doing their work for them are the >demagogues of your stripe. Nonsense. However, by advocating moderation, I often expose rabid zealots and demagogues. You, via your vitriolic messages in this thread, are revealing yourself to be one of them better than I ever could. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message