Keep in mind it's the same special status that allows the GPL to have the condition that you must release your source code if you distribute something that includes GPL code. So, "reversing" it would also reverse the GPL.
Not exactly. The GPL's special status generally comes from the fundamentals of copyright law: it attaches conditions to the duplication, modification, and distribution of a work. If not for the GPL, you'd have no right to distribute something containing the copyrighted code.
The datacenter-versus-personal conditions of NVidia drivers attach instead to the use of the copyrighted work. These restrictions are based on the idea of an end user license agreement as an enforceable contract, either agreed-upon when the driver is downloaded or through a theory that copyright attaches to the temporary (in-memory) copy of the driver necessary to run it.
