Leg DRM aan de leek uit ...

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Step one: Insert DVD. Press play. Hand them the remote and tell them to press FastForward during the Warning screen (or even better, find a DVD that has the commercials flagged to disable the FastForward button as well).

Explain that the DVD player is intentionally crippled to deactivate the FastForward button. DRM means intentionally crippled products. Explain that a Geek (possibly even you) could repair it so the FostForward button works properly, but that it is a crime with a 5 year prison sentence.

Two: Explain that it is not copyright infringment to make a backup copy so that he doesn't have to pay again if the original gets scratched. Explain that it is simple to copy that DVD onto a DVR-R disk. Explain that DVD-R disks are intentionally crippled - they have a crucial section of the disk BURNED OUT and destroyed before they are sold. Since the DVD-R disk you bought is DAMAGED, the copy won't work in a DVD player. Again, DRM means intentionally crippled products and intentionally damaged products. Explain that a Geek could repair the backup copy so that it works, but that too carries a 5 year prison sentence.

Three: Suggest he mail-order a DVD from overseas - say England or Austrailia. Explain that the mail-order DVD will be exactly the same as a local DVD except that it has a country code number on it. Explain that his DVD player would be perfectly capable of playing that DVD except that it is intentionally designed to REFUSE to play any DVD with a foriegn number stamped on it. Again, DRM means intentionally crippled products. Explain that a Geek could repair the DVD player to play his disk just fine, but that carries a 5 year prison sentence too.

So DRM means crippled products that prevent you from using your own property (FastForwarding / making a backup / playing a disk you bought), and that DRM means going to prison for fixing your own property.

If you REALLY want to get the point across, have him actually mail-order that DVD and don't tell him it won't work. Once he gets screwed for the price of a DVD he'll never buy a DRM'd product again.