ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Coded anti-piracy

Imagine you have a new toy, but you don't want any of your friends to copy it and make their own toys just like it. So you put a special code on your toy that nobody can see or copy easily, and only you or people who know the special code can make more toys like it.

Now, let's apply this to movies, music, and video games. Sometimes, companies make things like movies, music, and video games, but they don't want people to copy them and sell them as their own. So they put a special code on these things too, called coded anti-piracy.

This coded anti-piracy makes it hard for pirates (people who steal and copy things illegally) to copy these things. It's like a secret code that only the company knows, so they can control who gets to make more copies of the thing they made.

For example, if you buy a video game, it might have a special code on it that makes it hard for people to copy it and share it with others who didn't buy it. The company who made the game wants to make sure they make money from their hard work, so they use coded anti-piracy to protect their game.

So, coded anti-piracy is like a secret code that companies use to protect their things from being copied and sold by people who don't have the right to sell them. It's important to respect these codes and not break them, so that the people who made these things can keep making more things that we all love.