It is now illegal to unlock your mobile device.
What is unlocking? People use this as a way to get a carrier that they actually wanted. For example, if you had an iPhone with AT & T, but you would rather have Verizon, unlocking your phone would allow you to do so.
Not to be confused with unlocking, “jail breaking,” or removing the limitations from the iOS 6 software used in the iPhone, is not included in this new ban. Jail-breaking an iPod is still declared illegal.
The U.S. Copyright Office and Library of Congress are cracking down on this practice and have now made it illegal to unlock any phone under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Anyone with phones that were previously “unlocked” before January 26, 2013 are not affected by this and face no legal trouble.
When asked about this new law, Achille Heraud, a junior, said, “This law is stupid and unfair! My family has a family plan with Verizon but Apple used AT&T up until here recently. I kind of had to unlock it.”
If you are against this movement, there is already an online petition that you can sign on We the People at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mak… As of January 31st, they are already half way done with 100,000 signatures.
