Consumer Digital Rights Campaign launched
The European Consumer’s Organisation (BEUC) has launched a campaign for consumer’s digital rights.
The time has come to guarantee consumers certain basic rights in the digital world, and to tell them what they can do with their digital hardware/content. This is our message in this campaign.
* Right to choice, knowledge and cultural diversity * Right to the principle of “technical neutrality” – defend and maintain consumer rights in the digital environment * Right to benefit from technological innovations without abusive restrictions * Right to interoperability of content and devices * Right to the protection of privacy * Right not to be criminalised
The BEUC people have assembled some texts that make it easy to plunge into the marvelous world of copyright, most importantly a glossary and a FAQ. This site provides an easy entry for consumers who are starting to wonder why they are being denounced as criminals all the time. I whish more consumer’s organisations would take up this topic.