Unlocking Your Smartphone Will Soon be Illegal

Actually this is not the case. All the company that made the software has to do is claim that they provide full refunds of opened software from people that don't accept the EULA. By giving you the ability to refuse the EULA and get your money back the EULA becomes enforceable (as much as it is enforceable, which for retail software is not terribly much).

Again, I don't know the law in most countries, but I'm pretty sure this would not stand in many countries (assuming they actually enforce the law instead of just giving in to wealthy companies). Look at Apple getting sued for nearly a million euro for trying to sell a warranty that was already guaranteed by law, you can't get away with keeping things secret up until the point of purchase, even if you offer a free refund (and in many countries you are fully entitled to a refund for false advertising anyway, which a post-purchase EULA may amount to in some cases).

But either way, the other things I said still stand, you can't just make a 20 page EULA and expect people to actually read it and understand it during the installation process. It'd mean installing any piece of software would take hours and require a lawyer present to translate it for you. If you go up to someone and tell them to read through 20 pages of legal jargon and then sign them to, I dunno, get a candy bar for half price, then somewhere in that documentation it says you agree to give them all your money and a blow job, there's no way the contract would actually stand because there's no way they could realistically have 1) read it, 2) understood it and 3) the terms would be deemed unreasonable. EULAs are the same.
 
This is why we need to make a shitlist to go with things like this. A "who not to ever vote for" list. If the scumbags realize they have a chance of this being a career ending move, they'll be far less likely to do this shit.
 
I have every right to decompile anything that I want unless I've signed a *legitimate* contract to the contrary. By legitimate contract, I mean that it is in terms that the average person can understand and that it is shown at the time or place of sale.

You should realize no such contract, as you describe, has ever existed since the invention of lawyers, yet many are penalized for breach of contract all the time. In otherwords, you will get screwed if they feel like screwing you and there is not a damn thing you can do to stop it.

Sucks, doesn't it?
 
And the people cried, "Who cares, we'll do it anyway!"

You can pass all the idiotic laws you like, people will just ignore it do what they want, like EULAs. Everyone agrees not because they do but because they can't use the product without agreeing to it.

Exactly.

To the government: "Fuck you, I do what I want".
 
That's nice, but I do what I want with a product once I buy it. If I want to unlock it that's my business, I'm sorry but that's where I stand once I purchase something with my earned $$. Just for that I think I will torrent a few movies games and music out of spite and I don't care :D
 
Some of my customers are law enforcement and people boasting like this really make me laugh because if you think your threat is going to deter them then you have a nasty surprise coming. If they come for you and you decide to threaten their lives, they are going to get you one way or the other. Dead or alive.

It's their job.

Just like the Nazi's, fuck the citizens as long as the money machine operates properly.
 
They are making all this products a liability.

It's all about money, power, and control in America. Look at the differences between the European cellphone market and providers and the situation here in the land of the lobbyist. Politicians ARE the fucking American royalty.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
 
The reason gov usurpers probably they don't want you to hack their american spying device, slave tracking, depopulation cancer like lead to rome, soon to be ID, credit, 1984 ball and chain control device.
 
Funny how all these changes benefit apple, gets you thinking really if they are the ones behind it. Jain braking and unlocking devices apple has always been against and in the past have tried to take legal action against people. Ripping is another once since apple wants you to buy everything through itunes. HAHA communist America. thank god i don't live there.
 
Feck em' square in the ass.

It's mine - I paid for it, I will do whatever I god damn well please with it. This includes all movies/music/phones/consoles/computers.

Only when someone gives me something for free or loans it to me for free would I be willing to abide by some crazy ass rules.

When it's my money involved -- that makes ME the boss.
 
Funny how all these changes benefit apple, gets you thinking really if they are the ones behind it. Jain braking and unlocking devices apple has always been against and in the past have tried to take legal action against people. Ripping is another once since apple wants you to buy everything through itunes. HAHA communist America. thank god i don't live there.

you think apple cares if you sim unlock their phone?

you already bought it they made their money

and I doubt carriers are going to put "safeguards" in place because if you are on their network you are giving them money, no matter what terminal you are using, keep paying, no problem...

same reason we still dont have any stolen IMEI databases, carriers dont care if you have a stolen phone, as long as you keep paying for service
 
The reason gov usurpers probably they don't want you to hack their american spying device, slave tracking, depopulation cancer like lead to rome, soon to be ID, credit, 1984 ball and chain control device.

We have a thread winner!
 
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