content: Its easy to explain if you use the "do you trust your bank?" example.  Question: Do you trust your bank?  Answer: Yes and no. (probably, idk who you'd ask this question to) Question: Why don't you completely trust your bank? Answer: I think they look after themselves first. Question: but doesn't your bank handle all your cash less transactions (through a proxy), why would you only partially trust them and still use them? Answer: yeah but thats just for convenience and stuff, I don't want to have to go to the ATM and withdraw cash just to buy everything. Question: What if your bank does not trust you, makes you call them and answer questions for every purchase and if your answers are not satisfactory you can't buy what you want to buy. Then what happens? Answer: They'd never do that, thats just so inconvenient and awkward. Question: So why do you trust a media conglomerate to have direct access to your software, potentially your hardware, and an awful lot of your browser data? Answer: What? Statement: DRM is a phone home service, every time your browser access something that is DRM protected, perfectly innocuous stuff can have DRM, it phones home with who knows what kind in of info. Why would you trust a media company to act fair towards you with anything you do while browsing the internet?  Remember just because that torrent website is free doesn't mean some fuckwit in a media company doesn't think you HAVE to pay.