I applaud those who offer resources they create via creative commons and have little respect for those who somehow feel they have a right to use unshared resources created by others.
The ignorance or self-indulgence, it is hard to tell which, of some in regard to products that take both time and skill to create is beyond what I can understand. The Creative Commons option was very appealing to me. It seemed so reasonable to those who felt the need or justification to rely on the work of others to seek work that was willingly offered up. The search engines allowing such resources to be located seemed like such useful tools. Now, what I hoped would be a reasonable solution I could promote also ends up being suspect. It appears that some are taking copyrighted material, tagging these resources as available via creative commons, and circulating these resources to users who assume they are doing the right thing via the search tools (see post from The Register).
I cannot agree with those who claim bits want to be free, this is the new world order, or whatever. Just take a position that this is wrong. Encouraging theft cannot be regarded as an economic benefit no matter how easy the target.
