Figuring out how to manipulate the Someone so that they want you to write what you want to write- or at least tell you to write what you want to write, or to co

Figuring out how to manipulate the Someone so that they want you to write what you want to write- or at least tell you to write what you want to write, or to compromise on writing something closer to what you wanted to write- seems a useful strategy for mitigating those risks. I have recent relevant experience in this regard. I'm working on a system for university-level language professors, a large part of which is making it easy for them to use videos for homework assignments. We recently had a meeting with one of the university's copyright lawyers to ensure that the video delivery system was sufficiently "safe", and they'd be legally protected from being sued for copyright violations when professors want to use films in their classes. We quickly discovered that, if we explained things well enough that the copyright lawyer was capable of understanding how decrypted video ended up on the students' screens, and thus how a sufficiently tech-savvy student might possibly pirate it, they would freak out and insist we Do Something More. The obvious solution: stop explaining how things work, 'cause this is just making more work for ourselves. Tell them "other people used this thing and didn't get sued", and deflect all technical questions, on the other hand, and they leave us alone and let us work on something reasonable.