Occurs to me that a good way to disrupt communication with a dissident would be to have impersonators convince the dissident's contacts to block and remove their username!

Also agree with Gareth/Elnico on the real reasons why Flash video has become so prevalent; afaict, this is Adobe is responding to market demand rather than a nefarious attempt to circumvent remix tools and opensource alternatives.

Content owners who imho misguidedly wish to "protect" their content (think big tv) will be able to do so while staying within or returning to the Flash ecosystem, users impacted by this will route around as usual.

Mark, I fell in love with Françoise Hardy last year and am still in a swoon. This decade's releases show her still relevant in her 60s. Many of the YouTube videos are available on a PAL format DVD, which plays fine on my laptop, If only I could get it back from my daughter's French teacher...

A couple good fan resources are Alex Gerry's francoisehardycompletely and Warren Gilbert's Françoise Hardy All Over the World.