Authored by: jbb on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 06:04 PM EST |
I can understand the reason for locking a subsidized phone, as the
carriers are entitled to recovery the subsidy.
So could you
likewise understand if a car company or bank had a digital lock on your car or
house? What about a digital lock on anything you buy with a credit card? What
about a digital lock on a pacemaker until the operation was paid in
full?
There is absolutely no need to make the unlocking your own phone
illegal even before it is fully paid for.
You still owe them the money
so why shouldn't you be able
to use the phone most efficiently? Of course this
evil is
greatly compounded by the fact that it is still illegal
to unlock the
phone even after you've paid for it in full.
If the company goes out of business
or has a massive data failure then you are completely out of luck.
It is
crazy that the government would get involved in these civil contracts and make
unlocking your own phone illegal. The one silver lining is that this
makes it perfectly clear who the government is working for; it's certainly not
the people of the United States. If the government worked for the people
(society as a whole) and not the corporations then they would make DRM illegal.
DRM is a scourge on society; it makes a mockery of both fair use and the public
domain. DRM is encryption where the end user/owner does not have control over
what they supposedly own.
Sure, you own it, but if you
wanna to use it, that's gonna cost you extra.
By doing the
bidding of their corporate overlords our government is sacrificing our culture
for the sake of short-term profits. On this one issue alone we are already
hitting on three of Gandhi's root causes of violence:
- Wealth without
work
- Commerce without morality
- Politics without
principles
--- Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more
contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 06:05 PM EST |
The part about carriers being required to unlock phones on request?
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 06:08 PM EST |
Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones - Google Nexus 4 you can buy unlocked...
But, you have to wait for them as the backorder is huge.
Everyone wants one.
So, Why don't the carriers just supply that option too?
They might sell more plans, but of course, they like Microsoft LOVE to LOCK
FOLKS IN...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 06:25 PM EST |
This is talking about SIM locking (the practice of tying the device to a
particular SIM and network provider), not about "jailbreaking"
(cracking the DRM software so you can load unsigned apps onto the phone).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: marcosdumay on Friday, January 25 2013 @ 08:50 PM EST |
The telco companies recover their subsidy by the contract they make you sign
when they give you the phone. You can't stop paying before the contract ends
(otherwise you pay a penalty), and after the contract ends, there is no more
contract to be concerned about.
Now, tell me again why they need to lock the phones? (In the US. Here they can't
- but they still do.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 04:05 PM EST |
explain that, is that aleased phone i am buying form you at
a monthly rate LIKE say a car , a tv , a house mortgage etc.
YA know eh i can even on a lease
smash the car ( i just have to pay full price on it )
i can do same with a tv and even smash it with a sledge
hammer
unlocking it for good ROFL
and in my house i pay a mortgage on THE LOCKS are mine ot
put on or take off as i see fit....even though i have yet to
have paid full price on said house....however having no
locks might hinder you getting any house insurance on items
like your iphone that are in it that effectively what apple
is saying is that you cant buy an iphone ....you are renting
one and when paid for you can never do as you want with it
because they own it.
seriously this is why i am glad i dont live in the usa and
im glad i dont own an iphone or whatever.
YOUR not home of the free your home of the controlled [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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