If your argument can’t be explained in the form of a children’s book, you’ll never win. So it is that a Victoria based writer and programmer, MCM, has published a short children’s book warning about the dangers of DRM. The Pig and the Box is well worth a read. With the subtleties of proprietary formats and copyright removed, its hard not to agree with an adorable cast of farm animals and a message advocating trust and sharing.

Have a read. Print a copy. Read it to your children. Read it to your Member of Parliament. MCM has licensed the work under a Creative Commons Canada Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5 licence: Sharing that even lawyers can understand.

A pdf of the book is available for download here.