This Month In Terrible, Part 1: Anti-DRM T-Shirts

 

To fight the good fight against the evil legions of Digital Rights Management that are currently making it impossible for anyone on the planet to enjoy music, people who like to steal things have banded together to come up with a T-shirt design that will shame all multinationals into simply cancelling their copy protection plans and releasing all of their music for free, ceasing to exist in the process. Some highlights:

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Ohh, now I get it!

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Quite a reasonable point.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

I- no hang on, what?

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Ahh. Right. Well, I think this is clear enough. DRM must be stopped to save the king of puppet-berets from pointing to the trolley of film reels.

The only thing I’m still not sure of is what would actually happen if you did cut the string in this diagram.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Whatever they’re paying the guy who came up with this, it’s not enough.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

The gentleman’s protest.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

When those suits see this, it’s gonna blow their minds. “That’s- that’s what we were! All along!

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

I don’t get this one. Is the dove music, and he’s been locked up but can still fly somehow, or has the dove stolen the padlock of DRM from the olive tree of music and is now taking it to the trash out back?

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Intellectual property regulation? Sir, I refer you to my cock.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

As a satirical acrostic backronym, this only really fails by one letter.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

This may actually be the best diagram ever drawn. I hadn’t realised before how many games and documents from space were simply bouncing off our atmosphere because of the Anti-DRM padlock. We should get rid of that thing. I don’t know why the Australians even built it.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Yeah! Let DRM out of the cage that is music! Music is killing DRM!

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

I hadn’t really thought about it before, but preventing me from copying music is a little like raping me.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

I think we can all agree with whatever the hell this means.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

See, because it’s like, DRM is the three-legged green-eyed Giraffe of Dismay, and the RIAA is the elderly man riding it, and that makes people with fans dance like John Travolta.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Yes. This is just like that.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

And we all know how rubbish disabled people are.

 

anti drm tee shirt contest design

Isn’t that just kind of annoying?

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Bobsy: I haven't giggled that much in ages. Well done, sir!

Tentaculat: Wait a minute. That's not rape, that's the Heimlich Manoeuvre! Look, the Green guy is obviously choking to death... and DRM guy is saving his life. Hooray for DRM guy!

Timmargh: Haha, good stuff.

I was going to write a small essay about the fact that I took offence at the "disabled people are rubbish" comment until my live-in carer pointed out that I am, in fact, a crap crip. The bitch is always right ...

 
Pentadact: Heh. That design got a depressing number of votes, so I think if anything it needed an even more offensive summary of its bigotry. The even scarier part of the equation is that it appears to create a person.
 

Dabs: I lolled. Although as you say, the disabled person design and Martin Luthor King Jr. comparison were more depressing than anything else.

Dabs: Luther, even. I've been confusing him with Lex again.

SenatorPalpatine: I want the "DeaR Me!" shirt badly.
 
 

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