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by goodpoint
1342 days ago
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> Contracts (and software licences) cannot override the law I never said they could. > If a government wants to ban self-generated keys (and/or make anti-Tivoization clauses unenforceable), then it can easily do so Wrong. That would require abandoning copyright enforcement. Tivoization breaches the GPL. When a license is in breach, integrators, developers and users have no right to use such software. |
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Who do you think writes copyright laws?
Obviously I'm not suggesting a government would just abandon the entire concept of copyright, but it could amend its copyright law to say that a copyright holder cannot claim (in court) that their proprietary rights were breached solely due to a defendant applying "security measures" to prevent software tampering.
That would be grossly unfair to people whose code is then used in ways that go against their wishes, but government policies don't have to be fair. (For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not accusing you of saying that they have to be fair, I'm just providing some obvious context to help make my position clearer to anyone reading this).