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ELI5: What is DRM and why is it so bad?
gpt
DRM is the fancy name for what software, music, and movie producers do with their media to prevent people from illegally copying and pirating their things. 

There's 2 reasons why it's bad: First of all, most of the time it doesn't actually serve its purpose. As everyone can see, music, movie, and software piracy still exists and it's not stopping anytime soon. Hackers always find out new ways to bypass whatever security measures corporations use. It has always been the case since forever.

The second reason is the most important: It only hurts the legal users. DRM often restricts which devices you can play your media on, how you can and can't use it, etc. Many games for example require you to be connected to the internet to play even if you want to use single player, the songs you buy in iTunes can't be used on an mp3 player that isn't an iPod, and so on. Not only is this bothersome, it doesn't even affect pirates. When you download something illegally, all of these silly restrictions are stripped out, and you have complete freedom. 

So people who buy things legally have to abide by these bad rules while pirates get their stuff for free, AND can do what they want. It obviously isn't fair.