Re: GPL v3 possible issues.
"John Watson" <jgw2001uk@googlemail.com>
> On controlling music, I personally see no issues with this. With out DRM,
> music or other media type content could not be legally made available over
> the Internet.
Sorry, someone has lied to you. Music and other content is regularly made
available over the Internet without DRM.
> I took part in the BBC Imp trial which uses DRM to restrict copying and to
> prevent contents to be made available in other parts of the world. Very much
> enjoyed the experience, able to download any type of content that was
> broadcast on TV over the past two weeks, however I would have been great
> this service was also made available on the Linux platform however with this
> new GPL V 3 may make this impossible. It may also prevent the BBC using or
> contributing to open source project at all. [...]
As a Public Service Broadcaster, the BBC should have no role in using DRM
like the Imp that prevents licence fee payers from timeshifting the programmes
that they have funded, or otherwise engaging in fair dealing in the work.
Strong DRM (Digital Rights Restriction Technology, or DRRT) and free software
are incompatible. Listen to Cory Doctorow's speech from
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/csrmore/csr200603041/
for an explanation (warning: contains music and other media type content
legally made available over the internet without DRM).
But, I also don't see how the GPLv3 could stop it. If it means that the
DRM-enclosers can't used GPL'd work, maybe that would be a good thing,
although I don't see how trying to force that is acceptable in free software.
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