On 30/09/09 17:37, Kieran Kunhya wrote: > > If anything the open source community will be the first to find a workaround.
It will be both impractical and illegal to do so. From the article - "DTLA requires that all devices be made to "resist end-user modification". That is, DTLA devices can't use open-source software, lest the pesky licence-fee payer alter the restrictions in the code." And the novel feature of the proposed system is that it is a way of abusing the database right to exclude free software developers in the absence of software patents. The important point isn't the technical details, though - "These rightsholder groups have a long history of trying to arm-twist the BBC into imposing restrictions on the TV that you and I are obliged to pay for. For years, the BBC broadcast its satellite feed in encrypted form, paying an additional £20m a year to run this scheme. When the BBC decided that it was unseemly and wasteful to go on paying for encrypted satellite signals, the major studios promised a boycott of the corporation. The boycott was short-lived: as soon as the quarterly results came in with a massive BBC-shaped hole in the studios' income, they recanted." - Rob.
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