From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 13:57:37 MST
You know all those Make Money Fast type letters? Annoying (and
usually scammy) as they may be, they illustrate a possible way to
spread alerts. I've yet to hear of such a method being used to
spread legitimate information, but over on /., they've proposed a way
to use this to counter the proposed SSSCA law. I suspect most of the
people on this list would like to see the SSSCA not become law, even
non-US Extropes (so it doesn't become a model for your own country to
adpot, and/or so certain overzealous employees of the US government
won't be tempted to bully your country into complying with this law).
Would spamming be ethical in this case, since the information within is
verifiably correct?
Here's what they've come up with so far.
--- Congress and Hollywood to make you pay Hollywood has gotten Congress to propose a law that will force you to have to buy new VCRs, CD players, and computers. If you keep your old ones, any new CDs or movies you buy won't work! If you buy a new one, any old CDs or movies won't work! Either way, we're in trouble! Also, forget about taking home videos -- you'll need to go to a professional place if you want to make copies for your folks. This little surprise is called SSSCA and is being slipped in by the hollywood movie moguls so they can make more $$$ and force us to buy the same stuff twice. Anyway, I'm passing this along to everyone I know, it'd be great if you did the same. I guess you could fax your congressman or complain at your local Best Buy on this.
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