Illegal to unlock locked carrier phones!

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Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal Saturday | Crave - CNET
Thought I'd leave this tasty tidbit of information for us techies.
Thought I'd leave this tasty tidbit of information for us techies.
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Unlocking Phones Without Carrier Permission Now Illegal - Bonnie Cha - Mobile - AllThingsD
I haven't read the law, but it does sound that it is only illegal to unlock and then move to another carrier. I really don't see how they can say this. If I buy a toaster, I'm more than capable of taking it apart and changing how it works. Why wouldn't the same be true for a phone? I bought it fair and square and now it is mine to do what I see fit with.
Yup. That looks like Code breaking is jail breaking. lolzz
anyhow they can't make law like this because people use code breaking when they are in different country... etc....
There is company unlock and personal unlocking ways.... (2nd option not allows full features...)
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While you own the physical hardware, you do not own software, like windows it is a licence model and like with most software is is protected under law. In the same way as, reverse engineering windows, or bypassing the authentication system can land you in trouble, so can making changes to the software code running on your hand set. You know the bit of the licence agreement that goes "no part of this code my be copied or altered with out prior agreement....". This is a nice blanket clause that has very few loopholes, and if the carriers and manufactures don't want you to unlock the phone then all they have to do is insure that the code that locks/unlocks the handset is covered by this licence agreement.