Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 10:02:15 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505095934.04417930@localhost> 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>
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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
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