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<title>A restriction on technological restrictions</title>
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<h1>A restriction on technological restrictions</h1>
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<h2>The right to install other software on your computing devices</h2>
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<p>Safecast is a global project to map radiation data from around the
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world and release this information openly. When the project just started
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out, they used modified hardware, together with their own custom software
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and a few clever tweaks, to allow anyone to participate in the project.
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This kind of ingenuity, the ability to re-purpose or adapt existing
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technology by replacing or supplementing its software, should be
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permitted and encouraged by the law. In the example of Safecast,
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fortunately nobody prevented them from being innovative.</p>
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<p>But all of us depend on the possibility to install or replace programs
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that we use every day, to increase our security, privacy or convenience
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-- or just because we happen to like using a different program on our
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laptop, tablet, phone, router, television, car, or on other devices.</p>
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<div class="blockHighlight"><p>Today, on the International Day Against DRM, the undersigned
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organisations are calling on lawmakers to safeguard the right to tinker
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for everyone. To make sure that the owner of every device is allowed to
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replace or supplement the software in that device if they so choose,
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thereby empowering owners to control their own property. Many
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manufacturers today add technological restrictions that prevent device
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owners from changing their devices, or having someone do so for them.
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This can be in breach of the licences on the devices (as with Free
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Software/Open Source Software licences, which grant the rights to use,
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study, share, and improve the software for any purpose). It is clear that
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any right to tinker must also be coupled with a legal provision that
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prevents technological restrictions of the same right.</p>
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<p>To successfully guarantee that device owners are in control of their
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own technology, the following organisations ask that the right to tinker
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be guaranteed for everyone, and that technological restrictions that
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interfere with this right be limited by law.</p></div>
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<a href="https://aful.org"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="L'Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de logiciels libres (AFUL)" title="AFUL - Promouvoir les logiciels libres et l'interopérabilité" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/AFUL.png"></img></a>
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<a href="http://www.ccc.de/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Chaos Computer Club" title="Chaos Computer Club" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/Chaos-Computer-Club.png"></img></a>
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<a href="http://www.konsumentenbund.de/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Deutscher Konsumentenbund" title="Deutscher Konsumentenbund" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/Deutscher-Konsumentenbund.png"></img></a>
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<a href="https://digitalcourage.de/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Digital Courage" title="Digital Courage" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/digital-courage.png"></img></a>
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<a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Digitale Gesellschaft" title="Digitale Gesellschaft" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/digitalegesellschaft.png"></img></a>
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<a href="https://edri.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="European Digital Rights" title="European Digital Rights" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/European-Digital-Rights.png"></img></a>
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<a href="/index.html"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Free Software Foundation Europe" title="Free Software Foundation Europe" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/FSFE.png"></img></a>
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<a href="https://ev.kde.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="KDE e.V." title="KDE e.V." src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/KDE.png"></img></a>
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<a href="http://www.libreitalia.it/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Associazione LibreItalia ONLUS" title="Associazione LibreItalia ONLUS" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/LibreItalia-ONUS.png"></img></a>
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<a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Open Rights Group" title="Open Right Group" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/Open-rights-Group.png"></img></a>
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<a href="http://www.osb-alliance.de/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Open Source Business Alliance" title="Open Source Business Alliance" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/Open-Source-Business-Alliance.png"></img></a>
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<a href="http://opensource.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Open Source Initiative" title="Open Source Initiative" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/Open-Source-Initiative.png"></img></a>
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<a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="The Document Foundation" title="The Document Foundation" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/documentfoundation.png"></img></a>
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<a href="http://www.quechoisir.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="UFC-Que Choisir" title="Union fédérale des consommateurs — Que choisir" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/UFC_Que_Choisir.jpg"></img></a>
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<a href="https://www.videolan.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="VideoLAN" title="VideoLAN" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/videolan.png"></img></a>
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<a href="https://www.vrijschrift.org/"><img class="signatory-logo" alt="Vrijschrift" title="Vrijschrift" src="/graphics/DRM-Statement-logos/vrijschrift.png"></img></a>
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<tag key="drm">DRM</tag>
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<tag key="general-purpose-computing">General Purpose Computing</tag>
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