Tivo Healthcare
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| Well, consider what would happen if my software and the operating
| system underneath it were Tivoized. I help write an GPL Electronic
| Health Record (EHR). Under the current version of the GPL, someone
| could make an appliance from my software and GNU/Linux and prevent
| people from modifying and controlling healthcare data stored in the
| Electronic Health Record that ran on this device. What the
| Tivoization traps is the data, which for Tivo means movies and
| television shows recorded digitally. But what happens when the
| data that is trapped is infinitely more valuable? When we discuss
| DRM, we should be thinking of an EHR that has been Tivoized,
| (perhaps a health-Tivo) rather than a television recording device.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/tivo_healthcare
Think of what Peter Gutmann described as an appalling risk in using Vista for
medical data. DRM and signal scrambling could cost lives.
Related:
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
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