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Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. by jug6ernaut on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:23PM (#5111155)
Any secondary income is assumed income. A user can not be held liable or to contract for assumed income.

For your argument how is a user unlocking his phone and the user just stop using their phone different? As far as i understand your argument this should yield the same result as far as assumed income. (yes i know this is ridiculous but thats the point) Should it be illegal for a user to simply stop using his phones?

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Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. by rayiner on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:33PM (#5111209)
I'm not defending making it illegal, I'm defending AT&T's locking of the phones they sell.

It's not secondary if it's contemplated by the contract. I haven't read AT&T's contract, but presumably it prohibits modifying the software on your phone that way.

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