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+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.
+
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+
+> 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)