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DRM applies only to copyrighted works. The functional aspects of a GPU (what actually makes it work and enables you to use it) are not copyrighted, in the same
by EMIRELADERO 4y ago
DRM applies only to copyrighted works. The functional aspects of a GPU (what actually makes it work and enables you to use it) are not copyrighted, in the same way that a machine's mechanisms aren't (patents might still exist)
- happymellon 4y agoWasn't Tivoisation about DRM preventing you from using a different Linux kernel. I didn't think that DRM applied only to copywritten works. I don't mind being wrong, but if you could expand on what exactly was wrong and what is the actual situation as I am only saying what I understand to be the situation.
- EMIRELADERO 4y agoWhat I meant with DRM was "legallity of breaking it". If a technological measure that controls access to hardware has no connection to copyright, there's no legal concern about litigation or bad precedent being set.