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Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)Posted Jan 15, 2007 22:20 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)Parent article: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)
Of course if such GPL'd software were available it could be put on another box and Dr's would go with the lower cost solution (the one without the DRM). On the other hand, the DRM may be placed there by laws that cover the security of health data.. which point the law would over-ride the parts of the GPL that said you couldn't use the software with DRM.
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Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jan 15, 2007 22:35 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] which point the law would over-ride the parts of the GPL that said you couldn't use the software with DRM It's called expropriation. GPL can not forbid the DRM. GPL can easily forbid usage of the software in DRM-crippled device. Otherwise the whole point of copyright becomes moot: if the goverment and not copyright owner decides if it's possible to use this or that piece of software with certain device then what's the point of copyright ?
Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jan 15, 2007 22:47 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] To protect your 'copy-right' from other people. The government is always a special case because it gets to write the rules that you have.
Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jan 16, 2007 9:44 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Indeed. Copyright is an artificial *government-imposed* (theoretically) temporary monopoly, just as patents are. There's nothing innate about it.
Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jan 16, 2007 10:16 UTC (Tue) by fergal (subscriber, #602) [Link] In the U.S., the point of copyright is promote the production of more useful work. It is not to give 100% control to authors. The govt might decide that the country is better off if copyright holders cannot restrict the type of devices on which the copies are loaded/run. Highly unlikely but again, the point of copyright is _not_ to give 100% control to the cpyright owner.
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