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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / November 2006U.S.Copyright Office
According to an article in USAToday, the U.S. Copyright Office as issued new rights to cellphone owners. Owners will be able to break software locks in order to use them with competing carriers. The Office determined that consumers aren't able to enjoy full legal use of their handsets because of software locks that wireless providers have been placing to control access to phones' underlying programs. I'm thinking this is a good thing, right? Dave S(Texas) > According to an article in USAToday, the U.S. Copyright Office as issued > new rights to cellphone owners. Owners will be able to break software [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I'm thinking this is a good thing, right? It seems to me that it's a relativly empty victory. While you may no longer be legally liable for unlocking a phone and moving it to another carrier, that doesn't mean that the carriers are required to provide you with the information necessary to actually unlock it. It just means that they can't sue you for a copyright violation. - Rich -- Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. >> According to an article in USAToday, the U.S. Copyright Office as issued >> new rights to cellphone owners. Owners will be able to break software [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > - Rich And who is worried about getting sued anyway?  SignaturePierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2004 COOSN-266-06-25794 > And who is worried about getting sued anyway? Nobody, but the press that the government got out of this was great, wasn't it? Of course, the announcement does not require carriers to allow your newly uinlocked phone on their network. But you can unlock it. > Of course, the announcement does not require carriers to allow your newly > uinlocked phone on their network. But you can unlock it. That's the key to this announcement. It will no longer be a violation of any law or regulation to unlock a phone (SPC lock on CDMA phones, SIM lock on GSM phones). But there is no requirement that anyone then has to activate said unlock phone. And the regulation specifically limits itself to locks that prevent activation on another carrier. It does not address any other kind of unlocking (such as "liberating" disabled features on VZW phones). >It will no longer be a violation of any law > or regulation to unlock a phone (SPC [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > kind of unlocking (such as "liberating" > disabled features on VZW phones). I don't know the difference between unlocking and hacking, but wouldn't the prudent thing be, doing the job after the owned phone was activated? Wouldn't that be a 'given'? Just wonderin'..... Dave S(Texas) So other than allowing us to unlock a Sprint or Alltel GPS/911 handset to use on VZW (any other carrier use VZW-compatible sets?) this will benefit most VZW users how? For sure, we won't be able to use phones from Nextel, T-Mo, Cingular, all of whom have "cooler" phones. We won't be able to use any SIM-based phones. I suppose those adventurous souls who want to buy a phone from a Far East-based CDMA system and bring it here may have some fun.....no local support though.... Maybe this will be the end of subsidized handsets. Gee, that would give people even MORE to bitch about here. Dean > >It will no longer be a violation of any law >> or regulation to unlock a phone (SPC [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Dave S(Texas) putt@webtv.net wrote in news:4991-4566F356-209@storefull- 3278.bay.webtv.net: > According to an article in USAToday, the U.S. Copyright Office as issued > new rights to cellphone owners. Owners will be able to break software [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Dave S(Texas) hee hee......(c; It's about time..... >According to an article in USAToday, the U.S. Copyright Office as issued >new rights to cellphone owners.... The US Copyright Office is part of the Library of Congress. They don't control anything except how copyrights are registered. They can't issue new "rights" to anyone for anything without enabling legislation. -- Larry putt@webtv.net wrote in news:4991-4566F356-209@storefull- 3278.bay.webtv.net: > According to an article in USAToday, the U.S. Copyright Office as issued > new rights to cellphone owners. Owners will be able to break software [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Dave S(Texas) Not quite true. The ruling speaks to the locking of a phone to a specific carrier. It specifically mentions that unlocking 'crippled' features on the phone is not a part of the ruling. >Not quite true. The ruling speaks to the > locking of a phone to a specific carrier. > It specifically mentions that unlocking > 'crippled' features on the phone is not a > part of the ruling. I did not write the article for USAToday. The article came out on the day I made the post and I posted as it was written. Instead of vilifying me and my attempt to help inform.....read the article, then inform the Editor of the paper how much misinformation was contained in that article? It was in the Tech section of the Nov 24th edition. Dave S(Texas) >>Not quite true. The ruling speaks to the >> locking of a phone to a specific carrier. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Dave S(Texas) Villify? Please point out where I attempted anything other than correcting the information contained in a post in a Usenet newsgroup. In fact, I never directed a single comment towards you- that would be apparent by the lack of the word "you" in the previous post. Please focus your feelings of persecution on those that actually commit it. |
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