The corporate entity feeling the pain is ATT. They just paid a BIG hunk of cash to have exclusive rights and then *POOF* your captive audience is gone.
Another question is what will happen when these phones come back to Apple for battery replacement. At that point they will probably have their hardware changed out to disallow carrier unlocking.
The legality of this is questionable at this point, there are some issues being hashed out in court already. There IS an exception in the DMCA regarding unlocking cell phones, but its a pretty narrow one, basically you are allowed to unlock it to use it yourself, and there have been some cases of a phone company successfully suing someone who sold unlocking services.
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August 24th, 2007 at 10:29:40 pm
Is this kid going to go to jail or what ? did he do anything illegal ?
August 25th, 2007 at 10:34:27 am
The corporate entity feeling the pain is ATT. They just paid a BIG hunk of cash to have exclusive rights and then *POOF* your captive audience is gone.
Another question is what will happen when these phones come back to Apple for battery replacement. At that point they will probably have their hardware changed out to disallow carrier unlocking.
August 25th, 2007 at 2:33:46 pm
The legality of this is questionable at this point, there are some issues being hashed out in court already. There IS an exception in the DMCA regarding unlocking cell phones, but its a pretty narrow one, basically you are allowed to unlock it to use it yourself, and there have been some cases of a phone company successfully suing someone who sold unlocking services.