Imagine being told that while you have paid for a magazine that you now hold, you are only permitted to read it three times. After that, you need to prove that you paid for it and go through an administrative process before you are allowed to leaf through it again. This pretty much sums up the situation that exists on the digital front, with gaming in particular being a newsworthy focus. Music and movies and the rest of the digital entertainment arena are also affected in some way by Digital Rights Management or DRM.

The merits of DRM, which exists in the form of copy protections, encryptions and online verifications at the moment, are heatedly debated. There are those who argue that the protections and checks that are in place are there to maintain the revenue that the items in question generate. This is the side taken mostly by those who implement these systems.