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    15 hours ago

    It’s called tivoization and started with a device called “Tivo” which was the first of its kind to attempt this procedure.

    There are probably lots of hardware devices in your house that use GPL software but prevent you from actually modifying it because the hardware will refuse to run modified copies. If a piece of software is licensed GPLv3, it would violate the license terms to do something like this.