Don't Unlock that Mobile Device, Unless You want to go to Jail



Makes sense. Why should you be able to unlock or modify a device that you paid money for? That's just crazyyyyyyy
 
I love how if you read the comments on that article, everyone is angrily blaming Liberals for their awful bureaucratic rules and regulations ruining our freedom, while if you read on left leaning news sites, everyone there, who also hate this law, are angry at big business and the corporations for pushing through another law that punishes the little guy to help big company's bottom line.

If people would stop blaming each other they'd realize they're all in agreement that this law is awful and might actually get it repealed. But in America it's clearly far more important to figure out whose fault it is, rather than actually try to solve issues.
 
It's still legal, you just need approval from your carrier and all of the big carriers will do it as long as you're not under contract or delinquent on the account. I wouldn't buy a locked phone anyways though, I'd rather pay more upfront and buy an unlocked one than have a "free" subsidized phone under contract.
 
music4mic said:
Where are the linux developers with an open source phone & tablet OS?
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It's called Android, noob. Source code is available here Welcome to Android | Android Open Source

The carriers subsidize phones in exchange for the phone being locked to the carrier. That's why you pay ~$200 less for a phone with a contract, than for the phone outright. I can't really blame the carrier for wanting it to be illegal to switch carriers for the first six months to a year; without covering the different, anyway.

Apple on the other hand, can suck a cock. Jailbreaking a phone and should not be illegal.
 
Oh noez. I've been using unlocked iphones with T-Mobile since day one. Now they're going to track me via my GPS signal and send me to Federal Pound Me in the Ass Cell Phone Prison.

Wait, I think the Fed's are at my door. Goodbye WF. It's been realz.

FUCK EM! If I buy an unlocked phone on ebay, and I didn't unlock it in the first place, am I guilty of possessing an illegal phone?

Ex Post Facto my ass.
 
Amoxicillin said:
It's called Android, noob. Source code is available here Welcome to Android | Android Open Source

The carriers subsidize phones in exchange for the phone being locked to the carrier. That's why you pay ~$200 less for a phone with a contract, than for the phone outright. I can't really blame the carrier for wanting it to be illegal to switch carriers for the first six months to a year; without covering the different, anyway.

Apple on the other hand, can suck a cock. Jailbreaking a phone and should not be illegal.
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In the UK at least, contract phones come with less minutes/texts/data for a given tariff than if you were to just a sim only contract. The phones aren't subsidised at all, you're just paying for it over the initial contract length.
 
Amoxicillin said:
It's called Android, noob. Source code is available here Welcome to Android | Android Open Source

The carriers subsidize phones in exchange for the phone being locked to the carrier. That's why you pay ~$200 less for a phone with a contract, than for the phone outright. I can't really blame the carrier for wanting it to be illegal to switch carriers for the first six months to a year; without covering the different, anyway.

Apple on the other hand, can suck a cock. Jailbreaking a phone and should not be illegal.
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I don't no shit about this really, but doesn't Android also restrict their app market place? I'm more concerned about going after jailbreaking than I am about unlocking. In other words, aren't they both pretty restrictive when it comes to what you can run on the devices?
 
music4mic said:
I don't no shit about this really, but doesn't Android also restrict their app market place? I'm more concerned about going after jailbreaking than I am about unlocking. In other words, aren't they both pretty restrictive when it comes to what you can run on the devices?
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It's not really restricted. You can relatively easily use alternate app stores and Android comes with the function to allow non market apps in it by default. In general, the restrictions on Android devices are by the cellular provider, with Verizon in particular being the worst from what I've seen. Their motivations against jailbreaking/rooting are mainly to protect their awful default apps they put on your phone, as well as many trying to disable features such as wifi tethering and then charging the user to enable, in an effort to get even more cash out of you.
 
SethH said:
everyone is angrily blaming Liberals for their awful bureaucratic rules and regulations ruining our freedom
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Sounds to me like your liberals aren't very ... liberal?

AdamC said:
In the UK at least, contract phones come with less minutes/texts/data for a given tariff than if you were to just a sim only contract. The phones aren't subsidised at all, you're just paying for it over the initial contract length.
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Not for me. My phone was about £460 when it came out and within a month of it coming out I got it on a 24 month contract for £20 a month. Included 900 mins, unlimited texts and 500mb internet. That's what I call a deal!
 
music4mic said:
I don't no shit about this really, but doesn't Android also restrict their app market place? I'm more concerned about going after jailbreaking than I am about unlocking. In other words, aren't they both pretty restrictive when it comes to what you can run on the devices?
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No android allows other devices to sell apps in android format, prime example is amazon's apps for kindle fire/tablets which run native android apps, same with the nook color and other tablets. You can take an .apk file from the amazon store and install it on the same device you buy apps from google Play with and vice versa...
 
It's really an amazing level of Cronyism if you stop to think about it... Apple used your government to make it ILLEGAL to unlock your phones. Police will be spending taxpayer money to go out and enforce i-unlocking crime.

In all other industries I know of, the corp vying for an unfair advantage would do something like make their product impossible to unlock, or at least make a disable button where they could remote-kill the unlocked phone in accordance with the terms of their contract... But Apple? Pfftt...

Tim must have said: "Why spend the R&D to develop a kill switch when we can just call up a senator we have on staff and THREATEN our customers with FORCE if they try to unlock it instead?"

Cronyist phuckers. I was going to let my wife get the next iphone but this is just too much evil now.
 
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