Several dedicated teams of flyer dispensing bods did a splendid job,
handing out over 1000 flyers (approximately half and half the new EUCD
flyers, and "What is the DMCA?" flyers, plus a couple of hundred
flyers of various sorts left over from the last US Embassy protest).
Those of us shouting at the Embassy (from a much enlarged repertoire
of chants ;-) ) were once again delighted to see most of those who'd
been given leaflets walking past actually reading them, including,
notably, several employees of the Embassy itself.

Someone (possibly Jason or Gerry?) had printed off several copies of
the "Ballad of Dmitry Sklyarov", which it was universally agreed was a
better song than the DMCA version of "YMCA"; the CFDR's choral
contigent demonstrated a significant increase in volume since its last
meeting, regretably without a similar improvement in tunefulness.
Although, in the spirit of the recent Heineken adverts, this may be to
our advantage... "Drop the Charges! Or we'll come back and sing at you
again - With an amplifier!".

Many thanks to all those who attended, with particular thanks to Dan
and Gerry for making the new placards, Gerry again for printing the
leaflets, and to Neil Newell, Chairman of Ashpool Telecom, for giving
his entire programming team the day off to attend (all but one of whom
did, the other spending the time reading up on the issues to see
whether or not he should have attended ;-)).

Reporters from Silicon and PC Pro attended, the Register had hoped to send
someone along, who unfortunately fell ill, so they got a briefing over the
phone instead.

Articles have appeared since in the Register and Silicon (including an
editorial), and people having been signing up for both mailing lists
since the press-releases went out on Tuesday night - total membership
(across the two lists, discounting duplicates) has increased from 80 on
Tuesday night to just over 100 as I write this.

The new-look website appears to be a success - you'll find a snapshost of
the activity across the old and new sites for the last 7 days or so at:

 http://uk.eurorights.org/stats/img/webstats_20010901.png

The blue line - marked 'cdr' is the uk.eurorights.org site - the green
line is www.xenoclast.org (which hosted the old site, and still
catches a fair few referrals) - note that the mailing list archives
are still served from www.xenoclast.org, which is the primary reason
for its profile roughly following that of uk.eurorights.org.

The press releases went out just before midnight on Tuesday. Caspar
forwarded it on to his list of contacts as well; at about 8am the
following morning the website traffic trebled, and increased steadily over
the day. It's nice to see that it has maintained this level since.

You'll also find analog stats for the new website at:

 http://uk.eurorights.org/stats/cdr_stats.html

My apologies to those who've emailed me privately whom I've not yet
replied to - have been busy with my real job since the protest. I'm
going to be away from a computer until late tomorrow, and will catch
up then and bring the site up to date.

--
Julian T. J. Midgley
Cambridge, England.
Beware the European Copyright Directive:  http://uk.eurorights.org/