Shadow Lane
November 26th, 2003, 11:28 AM
I recently learned of the site http://www.sendthemback.org/ that suggests sending the music you download back to the RIAA. If it's illegal, send it back, right?
It got me to thinking. Most organized RIAA protest is reactive; eg. boycott RIAA, firewall RIAA IPs, Anti-RIAA petitions etc. I'm thinking maybe what's required are sites dealing with methods of proactive protest as suggested by satire-sites such as sendthemback.org.
Personally I'm not a website builder, but I know there's people out there who are. Here's what I'd like to do on this thread. Let's help out that imaginary site-builder. Possibly he wants to build a proactive protest, uncivil disobedience site, but the ideas aren't coming to him. I suggest we offer him some ideas.
Many times on filesharing forums I've seen suggestions for methods of proactive protest. I suggest collecting them here, and posting them, in anticipation of the coming saviour. I'm talking about methods of protest that could actually be done within the convines of the law, not hacking RIAA sites, or other such illegal stupidity.
Here's a few I've seen on other forums. I'll post them now to begin the list of ideas that could be offered on a proactive protest website.
1. Offer links to other proactive protest sites that may already exist, such as sendthemback, or the Big Hack (whether they're satire, or not, they're still on the right track).
2. As I understand it the DMCA can be used by anyone who wants to use it to gather personal information. Uncivildisobedience.org should offer instructions on how to do it. As I understand it all you need is a copyright complaint. If anyone quotes anything you say in public that should be enough, don't you think? Or what if someone hacked your website and took it over. That would do it. Uncivildisobedience.org would also make public all the personal info requests made by it's members under the DMCA.
3. Uncivildisobedience.org would offer a page that clearly states what politicians have come out for or against RIAA insanity. It would post links to that page at all major filesharing forums just before any major election.
4. Any and all RIAA or RIAA sympathetic email addresses would be posted on Uncivildisobedience.org, in a format that would allow easy copy and pasting into the Outlook address book. I'm not just thinking of email writing campaigns here. I'm thinking of all the new viruses out there that harvest addresses from the outlook address book, and send themselves out from it. It's a fine line here. I'm not suggesting anyone purposely send out a virus. What I'm saying is if bad luck should send you a virus it should go where it can do some good from there.
These are all the suggestions I can think of off the top of my head. Does anyone else have any? Remember if you decide to participate, please keep the suggestions legal. Feel free to pick my suggestions apart if you like. I'd like to keep the ideas viable.
It got me to thinking. Most organized RIAA protest is reactive; eg. boycott RIAA, firewall RIAA IPs, Anti-RIAA petitions etc. I'm thinking maybe what's required are sites dealing with methods of proactive protest as suggested by satire-sites such as sendthemback.org.
Personally I'm not a website builder, but I know there's people out there who are. Here's what I'd like to do on this thread. Let's help out that imaginary site-builder. Possibly he wants to build a proactive protest, uncivil disobedience site, but the ideas aren't coming to him. I suggest we offer him some ideas.
Many times on filesharing forums I've seen suggestions for methods of proactive protest. I suggest collecting them here, and posting them, in anticipation of the coming saviour. I'm talking about methods of protest that could actually be done within the convines of the law, not hacking RIAA sites, or other such illegal stupidity.
Here's a few I've seen on other forums. I'll post them now to begin the list of ideas that could be offered on a proactive protest website.
1. Offer links to other proactive protest sites that may already exist, such as sendthemback, or the Big Hack (whether they're satire, or not, they're still on the right track).
2. As I understand it the DMCA can be used by anyone who wants to use it to gather personal information. Uncivildisobedience.org should offer instructions on how to do it. As I understand it all you need is a copyright complaint. If anyone quotes anything you say in public that should be enough, don't you think? Or what if someone hacked your website and took it over. That would do it. Uncivildisobedience.org would also make public all the personal info requests made by it's members under the DMCA.
3. Uncivildisobedience.org would offer a page that clearly states what politicians have come out for or against RIAA insanity. It would post links to that page at all major filesharing forums just before any major election.
4. Any and all RIAA or RIAA sympathetic email addresses would be posted on Uncivildisobedience.org, in a format that would allow easy copy and pasting into the Outlook address book. I'm not just thinking of email writing campaigns here. I'm thinking of all the new viruses out there that harvest addresses from the outlook address book, and send themselves out from it. It's a fine line here. I'm not suggesting anyone purposely send out a virus. What I'm saying is if bad luck should send you a virus it should go where it can do some good from there.
These are all the suggestions I can think of off the top of my head. Does anyone else have any? Remember if you decide to participate, please keep the suggestions legal. Feel free to pick my suggestions apart if you like. I'd like to keep the ideas viable.