DRM and public benefit.

Posted Sep 25, 2006 14:24 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (guest, #19270)
In reply to: DRM and public benefit. by man_ls
Parent article: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

"I am not free to hack it, not in USA and not in Europe."

Sorry, I had said elsewhere that the right place to fight for a right to hack is in the legal system. I completely agree that DMCA and similar laws should not have been instituted.

However, I would also not support a law that said "Users must be able to modify all devices" or "Users must be able to update the firmware in all devices". That should be a market issue, not a legal issue.

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DRM and public benefit.

Posted Sep 25, 2006 21:26 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

However, I would also not support a law that said "Users must be able to modify all devices" or "Users must be able to update the firmware in all devices". That should be a market issue, not a legal issue.

Nobody has asked for such a law. Remember that in this article we were originally talking about how GPLv3 does not allow such things as copyright protection measures. That is not a law; it is a license, and in a sense it is a market issue: if you don't like it, go somewhere else to get your code. So I guess we agree on this point.