[BadVista Advocate] An ad campaign idea

[Ringo Kamens]

Some more movie ideas:
Displaying pictures of guantanamo prisoners the narrator asks:
Do you want your right to due process back?<br? Do you want to be
innocent until proven guilty?
Should police be required to have warrants before entering your house?
You still won't have these rights if you throw out everybody in the
oval office and use Windows Vista. With its new "Digital Rights
Management" technology, you are assumed to be a copyright infringer
when you try to use your legally protected fair use rights such as
making a backup of your music. Microsoft sometimes asks if you want to
send data to them, and even if you click no it still gets sent. You
have to "verify" that your copy of Vista is legitimate every 6 months.
If you want your freedoms, don't choose Vista.

or...


A cop pulls over a driver, and then starts asking her questions. What
is your name? May I see your license? It all seems routine until he
asks her to step out of the car. She clearly isn't intoxicated. He
pushes her up against the car and starts to frisk search her. "Why are
you searching me? I don't consent to search. You're violating my
rights". "Well mam, you don't have any with our new version of
Windows". The narrator comes on as she is handcuffed and lead over to
the squad car. "With Windows Vista's system-level DRM, automatic
updates, and proprietary source code, you don't have any rights. You
can't see what your computer is doing, it submits information to
Microsoft even when you tell it not to, and new Digital Rights
Management technology makes you innocent until proven guilty. Don't
buy Vista. It's bad.


I made some MAJOR updates, re-organization, and stuff on the wiki page
so check it out. It is now split up into multiple pages. Some work
needs to be done on the pitch page if you can help.
http://wiki.binaryfreedom.info/index.php/BadVista_Advocacy
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 4/30/07, rek2GNU/Linux <rek2 at binaryfreedom.info> wrote:
> Don Hensley wrote:
> > Possibly , if approached correctly, it might be possible to get it picked up
> > as a news item by one of the networks (if one picks it up all of them would).
> >
> > Lots of media coverage that way. No doubt more then we could ever buy.
> >
> > This might be done by having a physical rally located at a movie theater that
> > would be running the production. Or possibly using a projector at night on
> > some handy surface --like the wall of a building.
> >
> > If it was done in Boston I'm sure it would get coverage... just toss in a few
> > LED's. ;)
> >
> > I also would chip in a few bucks. But I think getting something actually
> > produced first might be the thing to concentrate on for starters.
> >
> > Don.
> > PS. I loved the "IT ATE MY BABY!!!!" --although that's just my humor, it
> > probably wouldn't go down well with Mrs. Joe Sixpack. Sometimes mothers can
> > be remarkably lacking in seeing the humor in some things...
> > D.
> >
> >
>
> Yes that is another way, but remember the media is very hard head,
> and sometimes they just negate the facts or make some up..
> to treat the media you have to be very carefully it can get against
> you.. it all depends
> what the media stock holders thinks about the issue.. I really will not
> want any story about Free Software on Fox25 news.. ahem...
> maybe independent media is easier to work with PBS... to name one.
> I am not saying this is not good, I think is a good idea but it can
> shoot us back in the feet,
> also to get media attention you have to do something big..
> The awesome Chinese guy the other week had a very good media attention
> and too the word of FreeSoftware beyond anyone I can Imagen before, next
> week
> Soon Bill Gates is coming to Boston and at BinaryFreedom we  are
> planning in giving away FreeCD's as presents and to outside in the
> street to give away flyers and talk to students, this is something if
> done right can be put on independent media outlets with out having to
> jump in front of Bill Gates like the guy from China :-)
>
> I do like the projector idea.. what type of projector is needed for this?
> hmmm this brings a lot of ideas... */puts evil smile */
>
> lol but in Boston you have to be careful just in case some guy passes
> buy and thinks we are trying to call ET and having secret msg's by a
> projector to the terrorist :-) HEHE
>
>
> Chris F.
>
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