Time to organize against DVD lawyers.

By Eric Harlow

It appears that it is time to organize and fight the DVD
lawyers. I think these items are pretty effective.

(1) Join EFF. Even a cheap student membership helps the
organization fight for our rights to play DVD’s on Linux. Visit
www.eff.org to join.

(2) Hit them where it hurts. Boycott DVD’s. Encourage your
friends and family to boycott DVD’s. I was going to buy a DVD
player, but I’m boycotting them until this fight is resolved to my
satisfaction.

(3) Keep their lawyers busy. Make it costly for them to go after
everyone. Mirror here, mirror there, mirror everywhere. Them
lawyers are expensive – give them something to do by hunting down
all those mirrors. This is about our rights to play DVD’s that we
purchase. (Or would purchase if we could play them.)

(4) Correct stories that say it’s about hackers copying DVD’s.
CNN posted an incorrect story about the DVD court case that seemed
like it was dictated to them by the DVD lawyers. I complained about
it and the next story was about how we were fighting to play DVD’s
on Linux. Do it nicely – no flames.