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| 1 | title: The right to install other software on your computing devices | ||
| 2 | date: 2015-05-05 21:56:00 | ||
| 3 | updated: 2015-05-06 06:54:37 | ||
| 4 | author: 46halbe | ||
| 5 | tags: update, pressemitteilung | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) supports the call on lawmakers to safeguard the right to tinker for everyone. | ||
| 8 | |||
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| 11 | > Today, on the International Day Against DRM, the undersigned | ||
| 12 | > organisations are calling on lawmakers to safeguard the right to | ||
| 13 | > tinker for everyone. To make sure that the owner of every device is | ||
| 14 | > allowed to replace or supplement the software in that device if they | ||
| 15 | > so choose, thereby empowering owners to control their own property. | ||
| 16 | > | ||
| 17 | > Many manufacturers today add technological restrictions that prevent | ||
| 18 | > device owners from changing their devices, or having someone do so for | ||
| 19 | > them. This can be in breach of the licences on the devices (as with | ||
| 20 | > Free Software/Open Source Software licences, which grant the rights to | ||
| 21 | > use, study, share, and improve the software for any purpose). It is | ||
| 22 | > clear that any right to tinker must also be coupled with a legal | ||
| 23 | > provision that prevents technological restrictions of the same right. | ||
| 24 | > | ||
| 25 | > To successfully guarantee that device owners are in control of their | ||
| 26 | > own technology, the following organisations ask that the right to | ||
| 27 | > tinker be guaranteed for everyone, and that technological restrictions | ||
| 28 | > that interfere with this right be limited by law. | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | Safecast is a global project to map radiation data from around the world | ||
| 31 | and release this information openly. When the project just started out, | ||
| 32 | they used modified hardware, together with their own custom software and | ||
| 33 | a few clever tweaks, to allow anyone to participate in the project. This | ||
| 34 | kind of ingenuity, the ability to re-purpose or adapt existing | ||
| 35 | technology by replacing or supplementing its software, should be | ||
| 36 | permitted and encouraged by the law. In the example of Safecast, | ||
| 37 | fortunately nobody prevented them from being innovative.\ | ||
| 38 | \ | ||
| 39 | But all of us depend on the possibility to install or replace programs | ||
| 40 | that we use every day, to increase our security, privacy or convenience | ||
| 41 | – or just because we happen to like using a different program on our | ||
| 42 | laptop, tablet, phone, router, television, car, or on other devices. | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | **Links**: | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | [FSFE: A restriction on technological | ||
| 47 | restrictions](https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150506-01.en.html) | ||