Even More Lawmakers Jumping on Pro-Unlock Wagon

[exfileme]

More lawmakers are stepping out and opposing that crazy ban on unlocking smartphones.

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[dimar]

How about not locking the phone at all? How about the cell phone companies just finance the phones to clients separately from the phone bill????

 

[sargentchimera]

I generally do not agree with those 3 and their ideals, especially Klobuchar, but I agree with them on this issue. Phones should be unlockable, even though I do not do it myself I support it.

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]How about not locking the phone at all? How about the cell phone companies just finance the phones to clients separately from the phone bill????[/citation]

They don't like it as it than would become clear to the masses how expensive these toys actually are.
You won't believe how many of my iPhone clad friends brag how 'cheap' they have gotten their iCrap; forgetting they are paying twice the monthly bill now that I pay.

 

[borisof007]

Glad to see our legislative officials doing SOMETHING, considering that their inaction allowed this to go into law in the first place.

 

[catfishtx]

Who are you and what you have you done with Congress?

 

[annymmo]

Congress doing something sensible involving technology, we must be in a politic-tech renaissance.

 

[gggplaya]

Phones shouldn't be locked in the first place. You paid for it, you get an ETF fee is you quit the service. That ETF is incorporated into the now useless phone that you already paid for. The consumer is the one getting screwed here.

You own it, it's your hardware. It shouldn't be locked in the first place, and it most definitely shouldn't be illegal to unlock and move to another carrier with it.

 

[Onus]

This is CLASSIC elected parasite. Pass a special-interest funded, rights-violating law in the first place. When people start to get upset about it, begin campaigning against that law, then repeal it amidst great fanfare over how diligent you are about looking after your constituents.

 

[Solandri]

[citation][nom]gggplaya[/nom]Phones shouldn't be locked in the first place. You paid for it, you get an ETF fee is you quit the service.[/citation]
Precisely. We don't need a law making it legal to unlock a phone you bought and fully paid for. We need a law making it illegal for sellers to artificially limit what you can do with stuff you bought and fully paid for.

 

[murzar]

The last couple of days almost seem unreal. First Microsoft now the american congressmen?

 

[manodjow]

ok seriously, even on Brazil carriers MUST unlock your phone if you ask then... cmon guys you should've unlocked phones by default...

 

[rohitbaran]

I think that some senator's kid tried to unlock their phone and they are facing charges, so they want to get rid of it

 

[murzar]

[citation][nom]rohitbaran[/nom]I think that some senator's kid tried to unlock their phone and they are facing charges, so they want to get rid of it[/citation]

Lol. That's is possible.

 

[punahou1]

They should have thought of this when they originally drafted and voted on this law. Now they have to back peddle after being exposed for how ridiculous this is....

 

[dalethepcman]

This whole thing came about due to political posturing. If the lazy SOB's in congress had bothered doing their jobs, then they wouldn't have let the exception expire in the first place. They must think is much better for all the sheep to see the Congress appearing as a hero for saving them from 10 years in jail for taking their AT&T phone to T-Mobile, than to have the issue never happen in the first place.

 

[bllue]

Blame Apple for pushing unlocks to be illegal.

 

[dimar]

Whoever voted to accept this law in the first place should resign!

 

[blurr91]

They are against the lock because they aren't the ones doing the locking.

 

[sykozis]

[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]Whoever voted to accept this law in the first place should resign![/citation]
Most have already been voted out of office.... The DMCA was passed more than a decade ago...before the "smartphone market" really got started.