[DMCA-Activists] (DC 7/17) NY Arena Outreach, 11/3/02

[Seth Johnson]

This past Sunday, New Yorkers for Fair Use did 2 hours of
street outreach on 7th Avenue in Brooklyn, recruiting
volunteers to help build the strength of the information
freedom struggle.  We then retired the tactic due to the
cold.

We also felt that the weather was affecting the rate at
which passersby were willing to stop and listen to our
pitch.  However, we found that our results were actually
consistent with past tactics.

Three NY Fair Users (Brett Wynkoop, Seth Johnson and one
volunteer) approached 75 passers-by with a pitch about the
FCC planning to outlaw home recording for digital TV by
2006.  Out of those approaches, 13 people volunteered for
various roles, most commonly Press Outreach Campaigners. 
That gives us a parity rate of 17.3%.  The parity rate has
been pretty consistently in the area of 18% for past
tactics.

Combined with results from previous Street Outreach tactics,
we have a total of 90 volunteers added to our database.

Seth Johnson