On 10 December 2014 at 10:43, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/12/14 11:29, Max Mehl wrote:
>> Of course, Free Software has many links to free culture. But TPB was a >> site with lots of illegal content. And of course we could (and should) >> criticise the current copyright laws but we shouldn't connect it with >> this event. It would provide our opponents with a target IMO. Just my >> 2 cents. Best, Max Original mail of Andrés for better understanding: > If a PR can be written without direct criticism of the raid then it > wouldn't be such a bad idea > There are many points that can be made, e.g. the consumers of digital > downloads have far less rights than their parents who bought compact > discs and the situation will only get worse for the consumer. I disagree. The Pirate Bay raid is largely orthogonal to free software/content concerns. And appearing to support it would carry only the message of support; not helping our concerns and, at worst, handing those who dislike free software/content a stick to hit us with. Without some point of direct impact on software or content freedom, I suggest leaving this one. (I do volunteer PR for Wikimedia, and getting any message of *any* subtlety through to the press is, in my experience, largely futile. And any commentary we could put forward would require subtlety to get through. If it can't fit in a hard-to-distort headline, it'll be a tricky one.) - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
