In 2 days it will be illegal to unlock your phone



Congratulations USA you just went and gone fucked yourself right up the ass. You guys realize that in 5 years, phones will replace your desktops and there is an entire breed of systems running on low power mobile platforms. This is really going to screw everyone because you'll only be able to get phones from a provider and be forced to use the apps and enviroment they provide. Good luck, internet restriction just got real, fast. They said fuck it we can't get internet regulated, so lets regulate mobile so that when mobile does become the next desktop we will control it. Imagine what they can put on your phone that you can't take off. Good luck all /rant

This is why I love countries like Costa Rica. Shit like this is such a tiny issue that by the time they add it to the laws, technology is gonna be way past that.

P.S. Welcome back PEWEP! FAG.
 
How can this be enforced though? Are they going to have a tracking software that will tell them if the phone was modified? And if so, then what? Swat teams going to tear your door down? How can this be enforced? Piracy is illegal yet everyone does it. I'm not sure how this can be enforced even though the law is bad enough.
 
Easton King said:
How can this be enforced though? Are they going to have a tracking software that will tell them if the phone was modified? And if so, then what? Swat teams going to tear your door down? How can this be enforced? Piracy is illegal yet everyone does it. I'm not sure how this can be enforced even though the law is bad enough.
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IF someone chooses to try and enforce this, they'll probably be going after a provider, as not only would enforcement be really difficult against an individual, it'd also look horrific for the company's public image. My best guess would be someone like Verizon going after CellUnlocker.net or on the jailbreak side Apple going after one of the big paid jailbreak/unlock sites.

Suppose you could even see someone go after one of the big blogs on unlocking and jailbreaking, or directly after someone who creates the actual unlock tools the way Sony went after George Hotz when he released his Playstation jailbreak. I can't imagine a scenario where an individual is prosecuted for unlocking a phone, but it's a strange and terrifying world we live in these days
 
All they have to do to make this work is not allow phones that have been modified to access the networks. End of story.
 
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