White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”

Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by dyno12345 on Monday March 04, 2013 @02:07PM (#5320000)

Has this actually been enforced against anyone so far?

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by AnthonyMouse on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:54PM (#5321257)

Whether it actually gets enforced doesn't matter, what matters whether people refrain from engaging in the activity (or aiding others in doing so) because of the risk that it could be.

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by dyno12345 on Monday March 04, 2013 @07:45PM (#5322108)

There's always that risk with unenforced laws - there's hardly ever (ever?) a stated policy of non-enforcement, since the executive is also technically obliged to enforce everything congress has told it to.

I would generally be interested to know if it ever has actually been enforced so far.

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by AnthonyMouse on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:31PM (#5322712)

https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by dyno12345 on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @12:51AM (#5323143)

Those are civil suits - not criminal enforcement that the administration could choose to pursue or not

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @01:01AM (#5323175)

Sklyarov was arrested.

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by dyno12345 on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @01:10PM (#5326221)

Is that the part of the DMCA we're talking about here?

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