I wonder...
Is printable, auto-feed-capable peel-and-stick semi-weather-resistant sticker stock affordable? (even if it isn't, tape is)
If so, wouldn't public education issues like this best be solved by a web campaign coupled with guerrilla poster 'graffiti'?
An 8.5*11" (double-quote is inches, right?) poster can easily contain a big word-art headline, a few lines of 'hook' text, and a link in URL and QR code formats.
Mass printing is cheap (though don't use a modern printer, some of them embed an identifier on everything, usually in super-light yellow pixels, and if a corporation pesters them enough, I figure the cops WILL pull out the manhunt-and-wiretaps routine for what could at most amount to vandalism. Chances are very small though.).
Use an ancient black-and-white printer and handle the paper with gloves and you have a 'perfect crime' (even though posting citizen notices in some areas isn't even illegal. Universities, town notice boards, etc. sometimes allow posters to be put up.)
Other forms of pamphlet/poster distribution (maybe not attaching them to anything per-se, just leaving them around, thereby reducing the charge to littering) could be even safer.
The average EA victim is a sucker for advertising and bandwagons, so an eye-catching snippet will appeal to them more than all the civilized Internet discussion or human rights uproar in the world presented boringly. Think of how earbleedingly _trendy_ campaigns like the Kony 2012 or whatever it was thing got. People like feeling like crusaders for (their own or others') rights without actually doing anything. This can be used to lure people into willingly learning something. A small fraction of them might change their opinion, and a larger group might even participate in some stupid token resistance effort (boycott EA and Apple for a month, etc.) on the Internet if the posters (unofficially) link to it. Enough popularity could get the EFF, etc. mentioning it, which would cause the online component of the campaign to explode in popularity to the point where the gesture could even prove noticeable (though still probably not threatening to the companies). This even has a slight chance of raising publicity in the public, which would be a Godsend.
Of course, nobody here (me especially) would even THINK of advocating something like that! [Unoffensive moral authority] forbid consider DOING it! The Law is the Utmost Authority and anything that could violate or Circumvent (including so-called "knowledge" that could enable or encourage such Circumvention) it is Unclean, Wrong, and Doubleplus-Ungood! AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!
(Full disclosure, I'm Canadian. I have no idea exactly how American attitudes are on fliers and posters. For all I know, they could be considered a crime worse than spam!)
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