[DMCA-Activists] Re: [DMCA_Discuss] (DC 7/17) NY Arena: Press Outreach Results, 12/3/02

[Ruben I Safir]

New York for fair use has been busy working on Peer to Peer
activities


I have no idea what your talking about



On 2002.12.04 07:10 Seth Johnson wrote:
> 
> Press Outreach Results:
> 
> Tell the FCC to Serve the Public, Not Hollywood!
> Stop the Broadcast Flag Proposal at the FCC!
> 
> 
> 12/3/02:
> 
> 127 Alerts Deployed; 273 Public Comments Posted; 420 Total
> 
> 
> This past Thursday night, 11/28/02, New Yorkers for Fair Use
> executed a Press Outreach tactic targetting the FCC's
> Broadcast Flag proposal.  Over the Thanksgiving weekend, 3
> volunteers devoted 18 hours to deploying the NY Fair Use
> Action Alert (pasted below), calling concerned citizens to
> voice their opposition to this proposal.
> 
> >From August 8, the day the Broadcast Flag NPRM was posted,
> to November 26, the FCC had received 147 public comments. 
> There were 13 comments in August, 51 comments in September,
> 59 comments in October, and 24 comments through November
> 26.  Comments had been coming in at the rate of 5 posted
> throughout the week ending Sunday 11/10, and 6 the week
> ending 11/17.
> 
> As of this morning, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 273
> additional public comments have been posted on the FCC's
> email comments system, for a grand total of 420.
> 
> These comments almost exclusively express staunch opposition
> and outrage at the notion of outlawing the public's right to
> own fully-functional digital television technology by means
> of a government mandate for content control.  Enter 02-230
> under "Proceeding" at the following link to see the current
> comments: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/comsrch_v2.cgi
> 
> 
> This Thursday night, 54 email alerts were sent over the
> course of 6 hours.  44 of these were targeted to one
> recipient or list address, and 10 to sets of related target
> addresses.  An undocumented number of online forums received
> postings as well, estimated at 10.
> 
> 48 public comments resulted from this outreach, 39 on Friday
> 11/29 and 9 posted over the weekend.
> 
> Through the weekend, volunteers dedicated 12 additional
> manhours to posting 53 email alerts, the majority Sunday
> night, 12/1.  Of these, 26 were to multiple related
> addresses, and 27 were to individual people or lists. 
> Another estimated 10 online forums received postings as
> well.
> 
> This produced 119 public comments in opposition to the
> broadcast flag on Monday, 12/2.  The total at the end of the
> day was 284 -- nearly double the total of 147 that had been
> posted as of Thursday.
> 
> On Tuesday, 12/3, 106 additional comments were posted.
> 
> Beginning Tuesday evening, at least two additional
> independent initiatives seem to have sprung up.  Joe Kraus
> of Digital Consumer contacted New Yorkers for Fair Use
> expressing his appreciation for our efforts, offering
> support, and asking to emulate our action alert.  Since
> then, we have observed numerous comments using a
> standardized text from his organization, and at least one
> other standardized text of unknown origin was observed among
> the comments.
> 
> Parity Rates:
> 
> One very rough parity rate for this tactic can be described
> in terms of comments produced per emails deployed.  We can
> describe an "immediate impact" rate based on total comments
> received by the end of the day Tuesday, compared to the
> total weekend deployment of alerts by 3 volunteers.  In this
> way, we can fairly say that 127 emails targetting various
> numbers of addresses apiece, produced an immediate impact of
> 167 comments.  We can also fairly say that 48 comments
> resulted from the 64 alerts deployed Thursday night.  This
> gives us a very wide rate range, from 75% (48/64) to 131%
> (167/127) -- the main thing is, we have found on this tactic
> that, very roughly speaking, in terms of next day impact, we
> get back roughly the same number of comments as alerts we
> deploy.
> 
> The snowball effect is a different matter.  Even more
> roughly speaking, as of the end of the day Tuesday, we have
> produced (with the help of other groups that activated after
> Monday) 273 comments out of the same 127 alerts deployed. 
> That gives us a return of 331% -- we have gotten 3 times the
> comments back as alerts deployed.
> 
> The process of accumulating target addresses is conducted
> separately.  On Saturday, 11/23, 2 volunteers conducted an
> online Constituency Target Search for one hour and
> accumulated 23 target news outlets, email lists,
> organizations, individuals, and comprehensive resource
> listing pages representing relevant constituencies.  Then
> the Deployment phase targetted these resources.
> 
> 
> Tabulatingly Yours,
> 
> Seth Johnson
> 
> :-)
> 
> ----
> 
> The Alert:
> 
> 
> New Yorkers for Fair Use Action Alert:
> --------------------------------------
> 
> Please send a comment opposing the "Broadcast Flag" Proposal
> to the FCC by this Thursday, December 5, 2002.
> 
> Tell the FCC to Serve the Public, Not Hollywood!
> 
> 
> Okay, you folks understand this issue -- it's very important
> to send word to the FCC by the public comments deadline,
> this Thursday, December 5, that you OPPOSE the Notice of
> Proposed Rulemaking #02-230.  This rule would make it
> illegal for ordinary citizens to own fully functional
> digital television devices.  We've made it easy; just follow
> the links below.
> 
> 
> 1) Please send in your comments to the FCC using the form
> provided below.  Tell them that the movie industry should
> not have a special privilege to own fully-functional digital
> television devices.  Read the alert below for details.
> 
> 2) Please forward this alert to any other interested parties
> that you know of, who would understand and see the
> importance of this issue.
> 
> 3) Volunteer to help us with this and other alerts related
> to your rights to flexible information technology in the
> future.  Two roles you can take up are to become a Press
> Outreach Campaigner or a Commentator.  Simply reply to this
> email to show your interest.
> 
> 
> New Yorkers for Fair Use Action Alert:
> --------------------------------------
> 
> Tell the FCC to Serve the Public, Not Hollywood!
> 
> Public Comments Needed to Stop the "Broadcast Flag" Proposal
> at the FCC
> 
> 
> Please follow this link and use the form on the Center for
> Democracy and Technology's site to let the FCC know that the
> public's rights are at stake:
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/fcc.flag.xhtml.
> 
> What's Going On:
> 
> The FCC is considering a proposal that digital televisions
> be required to work only according to the rules set by
> Hollywood, through the use of a "broadcast flag" assigned to
> digital TV broadcasts.
> 
> Through the deliberations of a group called the Broadcast
> Protection Discussion Group which assiduously discounted the
> public's rights to use flexible information technology,
> Hollywood and leading technology players have devised a plan
> that would only allow "professionals" to have
> fully-functional devices for processing digital broadcast
> materials.
> 
> Hollywood and content producers must not be allowed to
> determine the rights of the public to use flexible
> information technology. The idea of the broadcast flag is to
> implement universal content control and abolish the right of
> free citizens to own effective tools for employing digital
> content in useful ways. The broadcast flag is theft.
> 
> In the ongoing fight with old world content industries, the
> most essential rights and interests in a free society are
> those of the public.  Free citizens are not mere consumers;
> they are not a separate group from so-called
> "professionals." The stakeholders in a truly just
> information policy in a free society are the public, not
> those who would reserve special rights to control public
> uses of information technology.
> 
> Please go to the Center for Democracy and Technology's
> Broadcast Flag Action Page and use their form to let the FCC
> know that the public's rights are at stake:
> http://www.cdt.org/action/copyright/.
> 
> ----
> 
> Some background links:
> 
> http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/one-page.pdf
> http://www.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect15.22.html#III
> http://www.cdt.org/press/020807press.shtml
> http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/000334.shtml
> http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/000331.shtml
> 
> The following link is the FCC's "Notice of Proposed
> Rulemaking" for the broadcast flag.
> 
> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-02-231A1.pdf
> 
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