----- Original Message ----- From: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com> To: "Black Unicorn" <unicorn@schloss.li> Cc: "Subcommander Bob" <bob@black.org>; <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:43:08PM -0700, Black Unicorn wrote:
Adobe's co-founder is easily spooked and Adobe has had it's run-ins with violence before. This event is well publicized and Adobe knows its coming. Draw your own conclusions about how Adobe might prepare. What would you do in Adobe's place? (I know you are suddenly tempted to come up with a witty reply. It's a rhetorical question, smartass).
All this may be true, but it fails to recognize that most geek-protests (and I have covered many) don't result in high turnouts. See this anti-DMCA protest, which drew eight marchers: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/7/dmca-protesters-1.html
Perhaps 15 were marching in front of the Supreme Court when the CDA was being heard.
Is the glass half empty, half full or 100% in excess of optimum volume, Mr. McCullagh?