Americans should not face jail time if they choose to...
Americans should not face jail time if they choose to unlock their cellphones, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said in a statement Monday. “If a consumer is not bound by a contract, he or she should be able to unlock his…
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or her phone,” Pai said (http://bit.ly/XjiD4a). “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), as it pertains to this issue, unnecessarily restricts consumer choice and is a case of the government going too far. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution: a permanent exemption from the DMCA for consumers who unlock their mobile devices. I commend the bipartisan efforts already underway to address this problem, and I hope it will be solved expeditiously.” Last week, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and the White House raised concerns over a recent ruling by the Copyright Office limiting handset unlocking (CD March 5 p1).