It is pretty easy to be self-serving when explaining how the values of someone else should be adjusted. The complaints of those who object to various forms of copy protection often strike me this way. I am sometimes annoyed by copy protection when inconvenienced by moving a resource I own from one device or format to another device of format. Of course, the concern really is that I would move the resource from my own devices to the devices of others. Annoying or not, I am with the group that contends if you create it and your offer it to others under clear guidelines this should be the end of the story. There are typically enough options available that your survival does not depend on access to a specific resource.
Pogue’s post on ebook copy protection attracted my attention because as a content producer he has earned the right to react to the protect vs. unprotected distinction. I find his changing perspective enlightening, but I still believe the choice must be the producers and what Pogue or others moving to more open resources have come to believe is really only a message to other producers.
