It Is Now a Crime to Unlock Your Smartphone(theatlantic.com)
theatlantic.com
It Is Now a Crime to Unlock Your Smartphone
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-most-ridiculous-law-of-2013-so-far-it-is-now-a-crime-to-unlock-your-smartphone/272552/
4 comments
i) How is unlocking a phone circumventing copyright protection measures?
ii) Most people do not unlock their own phones, but take their phones to a service to be unlocked. Thus, they are breaking a law, but the service is more likely to be breaking the "commercial advantage or private financial gain" clause.
ii) Most people do not unlock their own phones, but take their phones to a service to be unlocked. Thus, they are breaking a law, but the service is more likely to be breaking the "commercial advantage or private financial gain" clause.
I'd love to see some more information on this but can't seem to find much. This feels pretty wrong.
It's also a huge prison sentence to change the IMEI on phones, or be in possession of IMEI changing software in most countries.
Only phones I use are unlocked samsung phones like Nexus S and Galaxy so I can custom build android source I refuse to buy a locked phone anymore
Only phones I use are unlocked samsung phones like Nexus S and Galaxy so I can custom build android source I refuse to buy a locked phone anymore
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109847
The earlier discussion got off to a bad start, in part because of bad reporting in the submitted source, an annoying problem here on Hacker News.