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Title: Petition To Make Unlocking Legal Gets Over 100,000 Signatures, White House To Respond Now
Post by: HCK on February 21, 2013, 11:01:25 pm
Petition To Make Unlocking Legal Gets Over 100,000 Signatures, White House To Respond Now
      


         
         
      You probably know by now that unlocking a cell phone is illegal in the U.S. as it would be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Many consumers disagreed with this and started a White House petition, which appealed to the U.S. President to ask the Librarian of Congress, who originally deemed unlocking illegal in October last year, to reconsider the decision given the legitimate reasons a customer might want to unlock his or her carrier locked phone.  
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