Explaining DRM to a Less-Experienced PC User? 195
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?"
Your SOOOUUUULLLLL!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Go Go Gadget Inappropriate Metaphor! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:there's hardly a casual explanation (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Two words (Score:2, Funny)
someone please revoke this guy's geek license...
Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
The big corporations who control the media, they're the piston. The cylinder is your ass.
Re:I've got it in one sentence (Score:5, Funny)
Shorter: All your songs are belong to us.
:-D
Wait, I thought that was MS Word? (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, you typed a dash at the beginning of a line! It looks like you're creating a bulleted list: and I know that what you really want is for me to reformat the line into a bulleted list with completely new and different formatting from what it had when you started typing