Until now, buy the iPhone 5 in the United States and unlock it It has been an extremely simple activity. To begin with, the telephone operator Verizon began to sell these already released terminals. The AT&T company, the main one in the country, did not follow in the footsteps of its rival. However, finding cheap solutions through media such as eBay, made the release of the iPhone 5 a common practice. Today the bargain ends in the North American country.
The DMCA -Digital Millenium Copyright Act- considers, as of today, that unlock a phone without permission of the telephone operator is a criminal activity. Those who have already released their terminal will have no problems with this policy change, nor will those who have bought a smartphone before. The law comes into force as of this day and gives freedom to operators to take legal action against customers who release their terminals.
The DMCA also targets those who offer terminal release services across different platforms. We have contacted a eBay that offered the release of the iPhone 5 in the United States for only 4 dollars and the service works perfectly: in a period of just 15 hours, you already have your iPhone 5 unlocked. Now, these cyber "chiringuitos" will have to close if they do not want to be persecuted.
In short, we are facing a policy that directly attacks the user. In order to "protect" the operators, we already have to sign a two-year contract: why are we not given the freedom to do what we want with a product that we are paying for every month? What about those clients who frequently travel abroad? Hopefully the DMCA will change course at some point and stop serving the interests of the phone companies.
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Source- ABC News
Too bad for US users, at least here in Chile all phones have to be released from the factory, and releasing them by imei for those that are not there is free 😀
Well then his thing is that ALL phones are free because if not.
In my opinion this is done the other way around. What should be illegal is that the phones were blocked.
This happens because users allow it, here there are no victims only fools and scammers.
I don't get the point right. If I release it through the jailbreak it is also illegal. Perhaps the Supreme Court of the United States, had not ruled in favor of the Jailbreak. I hope that this court clarifies these points since as far as I understand, I buy the mobile, and therefore the service. That they do not come to be imposing stupid laws without having studied things well. The politicians of this country, become brutes when private companies want to take full control by dint of the banknotes. What the hell does copyright have to do with all this? Let them get to your number and stop bothering the people.
I mean, release a thing THAT YOU HAVE PAID AND YOU ARE PAYING FOR, AND FOR THAT REASON IT IS YOURS, Is it illegal? Fucking Americans …………
It seems to me very, very good, and the bargain of buying an iPhone 5 the note 2 etc of more than 600 euracos in a contract and then release it and go to the bank to return the receipts.
THEN YOU PRESUME YOU HAVE IPHONE 5 !! 1 WOAAAAA THEN TO SCRATCH THE POCKET WHO WANTS ONE !! SOON THAT LAW WILL BE IN THE EU.