[lug] Fwd: It's Legal to Unlock Your Cell Phone

Mon Aug 4 15:44:08 MDT 2014

Nice! It only took since January 2013 (when the Librarian of Congress, for
the first time, refused to grant a triennial, DMCA waiver). :-)

>From my point of view the issue isn't phones, it's the DMCA, but YMMV.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Since phones are now computers and sizable number of them run Linux, I
> believe you should know about this (if you don't already).
>
> Me, I still use a dumbphone bought in Europe more than a decade ago, since
> to me the practices of this industry in the USA are unacceptable. But maybe
> the tide is changing...
>
> Cheers,
> Davide
>
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> Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:09 PM
> Subject: It's Legal to Unlock Your Cell Phone
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> It's Legal to Unlock Your Cell Phone
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> Last week, Congress passed a bill legalizing cell phone unlocking — and
> this afternoon, President Obama signed that bill into law.
>
> This effort began as a result of the petition you signed, "Make Unlocking
> Cell Phones Legal." Two weeks after the petition crossed the threshold, we
> laid out steps that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), industry,
> and Congress could take.
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> Your effort culminated in the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless
> Competition Act that President Obama signed today. The bill not only
> restores the rights of consumers to unlock their phones, but ensures that
> they can receive help doing so if they lack the technological savvy to
> unlock on their own.
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> It's the first time a We the People petition has led to a legislative fix.
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