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anti-DRM protects users' freedoms
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| grouch Mar 18, 2006 4:22 PM EST |
The anti-DRM section may be unpopular with TiVo and others who wish to exploit GPL, but its purpose is in line with the intent of the GPL to begin with: to protect users' freedoms. It is not a political section except as such protection itself is political. It is proper for the GPL to address technological means that are used to usurp any of the 4 freedoms enumerated in the GNU philosophy.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html "As a campaign to limit users' rights, the adoption of DRM is fundamentally at odds with the spirit of the free software movement. Unfree software implementing DRM technology is simply a prison in which users can be put to deprive them of the rights that the law would otherwise allow them." -- http://gplv3.fsf.org/rationale#SECTION00220000000000000000 |
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