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Note DMCA restrictions and how it relates to DRM.

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@ -479,8 +479,15 @@ available to subjugate users. For example:
Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them}} Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them}}
for more information on the problems these patents present to society.} for more information on the problems these patents present to society.}
\item \item Digital Restrictions Management (usually called \defn{DRM}) is often
used to impose technological restrictions on users' ability to exercise
software freedom that they might otherwise be granted\footnote{See
\S~\ref{GPLv3s3} for more information on how GPL deals with this issue.}.
The simplest (and perhaps oldest) form of DRM, of course, is separating
software source code (read by humans), from their compiled binaries (read
only by computers). Furthermore,
\href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201}{17 USC 1201} often
prohibits users legally from circumventing some of these DRM systems.
\subsection{Non-USA Copyright Regimes} \subsection{Non-USA Copyright Regimes}
@ -1872,7 +1879,7 @@ So end the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License.
\section{GPLv3 \S 2: Basic Permissions} \section{GPLv3 \S 2: Basic Permissions}
\section{GPLv3 \S 3: What Hath DMCA Wrought} \section{GPLv3 \S 3: What Hath DMCA Wrought}
\label{GPLv3s3}
\section{GPLv3 \S 4: Verbatim Copying} \section{GPLv3 \S 4: Verbatim Copying}
\section{GPLv3 \S 5: Modified Source} \section{GPLv3 \S 5: Modified Source}