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# The DRM Chair
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/the-drm-chair/
- Published: 2013-03-12T14:22:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-15T07:51:37.000Z
- Description: A chair that collapses after a predetermined amount of people have sat on it to highlight the frustrations of online DRM products.
- Author: Joe Iley
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15

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The issue of the digital rights management (DRM) of products is a murky at best. Services that limit themselves to a finite amount of uses, for example songs that can only be listened to a certain number of times or downloaded programs that expire after so many uses, are frequently unpopular and have earned themselves a lot of detractors.   
  
The DRM Chair serves as a commentary on the intentional sabotage of practicality for the sake of copy protection. After eight people have sat on it, the chair self-destructs highlighting the absurdity in limiting the function of a product. Designed by as an entry to [The Deconstruction](http://thedeconstruction.org/?ref=protein.xyz) competition by [Les Sugas](http://thedeconstruction.org/team/les-sugus/?ref=protein.xyz), a team of ECAL students, the chair acts as an example of digital conventions applied to the physical world.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/4383/7fa6a11b-186e-454e-913d-4586b1eeddd6.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/4383/0ffa55a4-21eb-461e-b53e-be4457c2e710.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/4383/7ecc80e3-a8a5-4dbb-b16f-dfd7a7e172ba.jpeg)