From 0729085380851b050b997a11196aac972139532e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 46halbe <46halbe@berlin.ccc.de> Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 06:54:37 +0000 Subject: committing page revision 1 --- updates/2015/righttoinstall.en.md | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100644 updates/2015/righttoinstall.en.md (limited to 'updates') diff --git a/updates/2015/righttoinstall.en.md b/updates/2015/righttoinstall.en.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aad7174f --- /dev/null +++ b/updates/2015/righttoinstall.en.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +title: The right to install other software on your computing devices +date: 2015-05-05 21:56:00 +updated: 2015-05-06 06:54:37 +author: 46halbe +tags: update, pressemitteilung + +The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) supports the call on lawmakers to safeguard the right to tinker for everyone. + +<!-- TEASER_END --> + +> Today, on the International Day Against DRM, the undersigned +> organisations are calling on lawmakers to safeguard the right to +> tinker for everyone. To make sure that the owner of every device is +> allowed to replace or supplement the software in that device if they +> so choose, thereby empowering owners to control their own property. +> +> Many manufacturers today add technological restrictions that prevent +> device owners from changing their devices, or having someone do so for +> them. This can be in breach of the licences on the devices (as with +> Free Software/Open Source Software licences, which grant the rights to +> use, study, share, and improve the software for any purpose). It is +> clear that any right to tinker must also be coupled with a legal +> provision that prevents technological restrictions of the same right. +> +> To successfully guarantee that device owners are in control of their +> own technology, the following organisations ask that the right to +> tinker be guaranteed for everyone, and that technological restrictions +> that interfere with this right be limited by law. + +Safecast is a global project to map radiation data from around the world +and release this information openly. When the project just started out, +they used modified hardware, together with their own custom software and +a few clever tweaks, to allow anyone to participate in the project. This +kind of ingenuity, the ability to re-purpose or adapt existing +technology by replacing or supplementing its software, should be +permitted and encouraged by the law. In the example of Safecast, +fortunately nobody prevented them from being innovative.\ +\ +But all of us depend on the possibility to install or replace programs +that we use every day, to increase our security, privacy or convenience +– or just because we happen to like using a different program on our +laptop, tablet, phone, router, television, car, or on other devices. + +**Links**: + +[FSFE: A restriction on technological +restrictions](https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150506-01.en.html) -- cgit v1.2.3