Free at last! ( Cellphone unlocking law )

AudioSavior

Freedom Rings: Cellphones Must Be Unlockable



Kind of good news coming out of the Library of Congress regarding our digital rights, especially relating to our cellphone use. Copyright laws were amended to allow customers to unlock the software on their cellphones so they can take their phones with them from wireless carrier to wireless carrier. The ruling is also good for...independent software developers who want to develop software for cellphones without having to go through the corporate red tape. Also in the ruling is the permission for educators to use snippets of movies for educational purposes and for blind people to use special software to read copy-protected e-books.
Several things come to mind with this ruling. Firstly, I'd like to thank the government for giving us small pieces of fair use once again. (Of course, the implicit indication is that now all other forms of fair use are illegal and can only be made legal by the granting of more exceptions. Oh DMCA, how we love thee.) It's also nice to see that blind people need to get special permission to use something that they've purchased. Secondly, how many people are going to claim to be educators know when they rip and snip DVDs? Laws are fun to sidestep. – Nicholas Deleon


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Beaker

So that mean I can use like a Nextel phone with TMobile service?

U MAD

AudioSavior

It sounds like it. If that carrier lets you use the phone and does supprot for it I guess.

Beaker

Sweet, I like nextel phones, I'll just buy a sweet Nextel phone, and just use it with my TMobile service

U MAD

Inogenius

Nooooooo.... Nextel & TMobile use two different style networks. Tmobile and Cingular phones are cross compatible. Alltell, Verizon and Sprint-Nextel are cross compatible. However tmobile and nextel, not cross compatible.

AudioSavior

Well there you go. Although that isn't a surprise. Not all phones work with all companies.

Beaker

MOTHER TRUCKERS, they be hatin on me! WTF, why they always be keepin a brotha down fo'?

U MAD

Killj0y

Sprint doesnt use SIM cards so you can count them out.

"We're going to keep doing what we do whether or not a single record is sold" - Tomas Kalnoky of Streetlight Manifesto

God

Super Moderator

its a conspirecy against you, everyone is involved, your neighbours cat is the ringleader, but you didnt hear it from me.

*goes back into the darkness*

Beaker

I knew it! That stupid pesky little mongril! You always have to be careful with the nice ones. I'm gonna skin his asss

U MAD