[governance] Fwd: Unlocking Your Phone Is Illegal Starting Tomorrow

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I agree they are both different.  Jailbreaking to install additional apps / a third party firmware image is entirely different from unlocking from your carrier's SIM to get out of a contract.

I need some coffee - it was wrong to use the term jailbreaking for this particular activity beign discussed in the thread.

--srs (iPad)

On 28-Jan-2013, at 10:43, "James S. Tyre" <jstyre at jstyre.com> wrote:

> Suresh,
> 
> Please don't confuse unlocking and jailbreaking.  Both as a matter of technology and under
> U.S. law, they are completely different.
> 
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> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-
>> request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:41 PM
>> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Charity Gamboa
>> Cc: Diego Rafael Canabarro
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Fwd: Unlocking Your Phone Is Illegal Starting Tomorrow
>> 
>> Charity Gamboa [27/01/13 22:29 -0600]:
>>> upgrade. I've done it so I would think that the issue lies on the
>>> premise that if you are locked into a contract, unlocking your phone is
>>> not allowed. Once you are through with your contract, I would assume
>>> that your phone is paid for and technically yours.
>> 
>> That premise is correct. Jailbreaking your phone when you buy it cheap on contract is
>> the issue here. Several people are doing this not for the freedom of installing new
>> apps, but to simply export the phone out and sell it at a profit in the second hand
>> market in developing countries.
>> 
>> There was an excellent article on how this underground economy operates, though it
>> doesn't specifically mention iphones. How Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated commercial
>> building in the tourist heart of hong kong, is a major centre for the phone gray
>> market in emerging economies.
>> 
>> http://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/upwardly-mobile
> 
> 

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