What the ban on unlocking phones means (worse than you think)
Source: What the ban on unlocking phones means (worse than you think) / Boing Boing
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If a court rules in favor of the carriers, penalties can be stiff – up to $2,500 per unlocked phone in a civil suit, and $500,000 or five years in prison in a criminal case where the unlocking is done for “commercial advantage.” And this could happen even for phones that are no longer under contract. So we’re really not free to do as we want with devices that we own.