RE: Comments and questions

["Eric Benson" <ebenson@xxxxxxxx>]

Robert Hansen wrote...
> Unfortunately, it does neither.  Nor does it stand up in court.  The
> signature is rather trivial to circumvent.

Sure: Control-P, print it and retype it.  The task could probably be
completed with less effort than this argument.  For the target audience to
use the material, the ability to print is essential.  A good typist could
transcribe the information quickly and easily... far easier than
electronically stealing the material.

We're talking about game material here that was placed into the public
domain by the authors.  A game, that until three weeks ago, was no longer
available.

How much protection is needed for the material?  We're talking game
material, not government secrets.  As an author, I want to discourage casual
theft, but I'm not going to engage in a technology war to protect it.  If
theft becomes that much of a problem, I'll print it on Charmin toilet tissue
instead of a pdf file (hey, it will still get worldwide dissemination...).

In this case, extreme protection runs counter to the intent of making the
material available to the maximum number of people for the minimum effort on
both the sides of the author and the recipient.

-Eric