Agit Spam and other Citizen Actions [Adobe vs. Rationality]

[Subcommander Bob]

At 07:23 PM 7/18/01 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
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>> How do you picket a virtual store?
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>DoS? Oh, I forgot, it's a "crime".

Sure, that's harshing on infrastructure.  Bad hacker, no coffee.

But something like search-engine poisoning is not a crime.
Regular ole boycotts are not yet Conspiracies to Interfere
With Interstate Trade.  Hell, spamming with negative comments
is still legal; what if the spam seemed to come from Adobe?
What if the agit-spam seemed to come from, say, a near-name like
AdobeCo.com?  How about a little anonymous stock price rumor mongering?

Probably Adobe is resistant to change their course; they prefer to sleep
with
the likes of the Valenti Mafia...

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"I'm apoplectic at the sheer chutzpah."  ---Stanton McCandlish