<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>20 okt 2009 kl. 00.53 skrev Richard Stallman:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Some musicians are obnoxiously opposed to sharing.<br>I wonder if it might be interesting to protest them;<br>for instance, hand out leaflets at their concerts.</span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Bad idea. Musicians are not our enemy.</div><div><br></div><div>It is already a common argument against the pirate movement to suggest that the pirates stand in opposition to the artists. Pirates protesting against artists directly would just reinforce that misconception.</div><div><br></div><div>You also have to consider your audience. You're not likely to convince the artist to change his views by disrupting an evening of entertainment. Nor will the people attending the concert appreciate being disrupted. They came there to listen to his music, not to take part in political discourse.</div></body></html>