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Unlocking Cell Phones Soon To Be Branded Illegal
From this Saturday, unlocking any phone without the wireless carrier’s permission will be marked as a violation of law. This ruling goes back to a bill passed by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress last October. At that time the Copyright Office granted the consumers a 90 day period to unlock their phones and the window expired yesterday.
Copyright Office has to review the laws of phone unlocking and jailbreaking every 3 years to maintain the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
The rule applies to both unlocking and jailbreaking. The officials say that technology has evolved and the market is flooded with diversified products and there’s much scope to unlock devices by dodging the laws. The regulators also said that the ruling wouldn’t harm the market in any way.
Apple is strict about the availability of some applications in its app store. Jailbreaking allows users to run unauthorized apps in the Apple devices. Since jailbreaking isn’t the same as unlocking phones, some parties protested against the rule applying to jailbreaking. But the regulators clearly stated that jailbreaking violates the company law and that’s why the ruling serves this issue.
Copyright Office refused to apply the rules regarding jailbreaking to tablet computers.
2013-01-26 10:48:01
Source: http://www.techgadgetsweb.com/11514/unlocking-cell-phones-branded-illegal
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