[NetBehaviour] DRM, Copyright, & The Pig And The Box

[james at jwm-art.net]

The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can
replicate anything you put into it. The pig becomes so protective of it,
and so suspicious of anyone that wants to use it, that he makes people
take their copied items home in special buckets that act as... well,
they're basically DRM. It's like a fable, except the moral of the
story is very modern in tone.

I made the book after hearing how the entertainment industry in Canada is
keen on teaching young kids about how to "respect" copyright. That was
a bit heavy-handed, I thought, and otherwise despicable. Preying on
small kids, brainwashing them so they believe what you're doing is
honourable and good... Feh. So I wrote this book partly as a response to
that venture, to counter-act the confused ideals that young'ns are
being exposed to these days. Also, I wanted to write potty humour.

http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2006/07/pig-and-box.html
http://www.captaincopyright.ca/

(story from Linux User & Developer dead tree version)