I hear a lot of people in this organization speak very highly of civil disobedience, and it seems like some of us are just waiting for an opportunity to justify breaking the law and sticking it to "the man." I suppose I could right a very long-winded article on why I think civil disobedience is a bad idea, but I'm not much of a writer, so I'll just say a few things that come to mind.
One example that often comes up is piracy, but I feel that that helps out the mpaa/riaa far more than just boycotting it all together. I suppose most of you don't know this, but I used to be on the far other side of this discussion (about copyright/culture). I remember arguing about copyright and piracy with someone in a philosophy class in high school (and imagine me talking like a 16-year-old version of Dan Glickman). I thought that everyone who disagreed with me was being immature. How ironic that over four years later I became a grad student and the person I was arguing with was one of my first chapter members. But the thing is, I *still* think that all the people in the room who disagreed were being immature! It wasn't until I discovered *constructive* solutions like the FSF and CC that I really changed my mind about things. I'm open for discussion, but if this organization ever plans a civil disobedience event, you can count me out of the event, and possibly out of the organization. ~Conley _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
