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In those places where FairPlay's live
protests have met the public so far, support and media coverage has been
extremely strong. But if such upfront confrontation is a little too
risky/chilly/time-consuming for you, then why not try new, improved Guerrilla
Tactics? All this week, why not slope around putting those dinky little
FairPlay leaflets everywhere? Slip them inside games magazines. Slot them
between cases on game-shop shelves. Leave them in pubs, record shops, libraries,
arcades, noticeboards, anywhere people put flyers. Get permission
where you can, and just be careful where you can't.
Naturally, getting caught doing this in Game or Bob's Videogaming Boutique will
likely get you thrown out of the store with a flea in your ear, but it's not
against any law we know of. (What would they charge you with? Constructive
littering?) Who could tell an FP leaflet from any other legit insert anyway? (Of
course, if it turns out we're just idiots and there ARE laws about this sort of
thing, be sure to obey them.)
Grab the leaflets from the site, print them out (as
they are for newsagents, a little smaller for game stores), shove them in your
bag and shed a few whenever you get an opportunity while going about your
normal life. We've already seen that if people find out about the campaign,
they're generally very supportive. So let's let them know we're there.
Newsagents are a particularly good target. There tend to be a lot fewer staff
watching you than in game stores, and most people look at stuff that falls
out of magazines despite themselves. Let's use the world's largely gutless
games magazines as a Trojan horse, since most of them didn't have the balls to
cover FairPlay themselves. But don't just stop at games mags - FHM, Front,
Loaded and all the rest are fair game too (though at this time of year they're
often bagged - just leave leaflets between copies in that case). Compared to
leafletting publicly, this is nice easy activism anyone can join in with
without sticking their head above the parapet.
It's not too late for the tens of thousands who agree that games are too
expensive but couldn't be bothered helping to change the fact so far.
Here are the
leaflets. Let's go to work.
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