The Legal Side of Unlocking
Posted in Geeky by Dan at 8:11 pm
This post was published 2 years 2 months 15 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Yes, a certain phone owned by a company named after a fruit was unlocked today and from the emails in my box people thought that the unlocker would get sued into oblivion.
Unlocking, now more then ever is a LEGAL non infringing way to free your phone. There is no US law against unlocking cell phones and last year, the Library of Congress made the step to exclude cell-phone unlocking as a punishable offense from under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
So will the un-locker get sued? Probably, thats the way apple conducts business but the case will be on shaky ground unless there was confidential propriety information directly leaked or stolen from Apple to do this unlocking.
Hack on!
where can i find instructions?
It will be made available in 48 hours… It can be unlocked via software and we will be granted 4 unlock keys that we are giving away.
that is awesome! If I already have an iphone and its activated with AT&T can I still unlock it to be used with other carriers? any info would be cool.
I would not mind an unlock key :D (What exactly are these unlock keys for anyhow?)
Awesome! If you could be so kind my good friend Dan ;-) Feel free to send on of those keys my way =-)
I hope it’ll be legal to unlock an iPhone in the uk after it’s released.
from what i read it’s not an easy task to unlock (yet). both hardware and software. i think i’ll wait for a purely software method. ;)
peace.
bv.
wow I think thats awesome! … So when are you going to give away the keys? :p
That is neat. What carriers can you have?
Lone for the day i can use any cell phone i like on a pre-pay network. So even bums like me can have nice phones :)
Awesome, does this mean I can an iPhone in Australia?