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Explaining DRM to a Less-Experienced PC User?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-with-analogies dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I have a question for Slashdot users eager for a challenge. How would one explain – at a casual level – the concept of, and problems with, DRM to someone who is competent using a computer, but with little technical knowledge?"

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  1. Go Go Gadget Inappropriate Metaphor! by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 5, Funny

    DRM is somebody saying "You can have this lawnmower, but only if you always take this ball and chain with it. Just so I'm sure you don't run off with it. So that you can still use it, it also comes with a butler who will unlock it for you. He unlocks it by flipping a switch from "locked" to "unlocked". You may not flip the switch yourself. The butler only works on tuesdays."

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  2. Re:there's hardly a casual explanation by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Funny

    *Ahem*

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  3. Car analogy by Profound · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone likes car analogies. Think of an engine in a car.

    The big corporations who control the media, they're the piston. The cylinder is your ass.

  4. Re:I've got it in one sentence by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shorter: All your songs are belong to us.

    :-D

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