Good news everyone! We are relieved, we are SO relieved, because as of Saturday, there are criminal penalties (including jail time and a fine of up to $500,000) for unlocking your phone so you can switch cel phone providers. Is this an oversight, you might be wondering? A mere loophole in an otherwise sound piece of legislation? Maybe there is a good explanation!
Final sentence from the Ars article: "It's important to note that unlocking a phone in order to take it to another carrier is different from jailbreaking it in order to install software not approved by the manufacturer. Jailbreaking is legal under the new rules—but only for phones, not tablets. And no, that doesn't make sense to us either."
Well done!
But then how do you read the Wonkette while taking a dump? Oops, TMI...
Final sentence from the Ars article: "It's important to note that unlocking a phone in order to take it to another carrier is different from jailbreaking it in order to install software not approved by the manufacturer. Jailbreaking is legal under the new rules—but only for phones, not tablets. And no, that doesn't make sense to us either."
That's some DMCA, that DMCA-22.
Bqhatevwr.
#scottbrowning