The Pig and the Box
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The cover of The Pig and the Box by MCM
The Pig and the Box is a children's book written and drawn by a Canadian writer, producer and programmer known as "MCM".
Written in July 2006, The Pig and the Box is a book about the negative sides of DRM, written as a reaction to Access Copyright's Captain Copyright campaign directed at kids.
The Pig and the Box is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. It was made popular by posts on Boing Boing and Digg and it took only a few days before volunteers had translated the story into German, Chinese, Danish and Italian. To date it has also been translated into French, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
[edit] Characters in order of appearance
- Pig
- The crazy squirrel
- Duck
- Bunny
- Maurice
