tivoization
Tivo Healthcare
- 2007-01-11
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Tivoization is a real threat to users freedom, but only when you consider the appropriate context. It’s not just a question of controlling hardware, more importantly its about controlling data. This issue becomes clearer when you consider health software instead of television software
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Tivoisation explained - implementation and harms
- 2006-12-19
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To think about what free software licences should do about tivoisation, we have to understand what problems we’re trying to prevent, and how it works - so that we can ensure that it doesn’t work.
How tivoisation works
Tivoisation is a technique that manufacturers use to produce a computer, to sell to you, whose software they can update but you can’t.
There are three elements involved in tivoisation:
- The manufacturer puts a chip in the computer which checks any software before it is run and which will only allow authorised software to be run.
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