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KHlover on 26 January 2013

Lawl, that sucks. Although I'm not sure if it is legal in Germany either...



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mysticwolf on 26 January 2013

How would they even approach enforcing this?
Maybe the police are going to go door to door and check your phones lol



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UltimateUnknown on 26 January 2013

It seems like some laws are just there for political correctness so that the government can say hey we did everything we could to help the companies. Other than that its just going to be ignored.



 

JoeTheBro on 26 January 2013

Yes yes and a million times more yes!!! Suck it guys.

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Light on 26 January 2013

Like its going to stop people >_>



               

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BaldrSkies on 26 January 2013

They'll arrest one or two patsies to scare people, just like file-sharing lawsuits.



Kasz216 on 26 January 2013
Mr Khan said:
Who had ruled that it was legal initially, the same guy?

Anyway, it flies in the face of established consumer law. Anyone who gets prosecuted under this should get the ACLU on their case and smack the big telecoms companies in their face.

Same guy.

Truth is though, it's actually pretty consistant with US copyright law.

For example it's illegal to make backup copies of videogames because it's illegal to overwrite the copyright protection.

 

Essentially you have legal ownership over the box, but NOT legal ownership over the lock that is keeping the box closed.  You can't do anything to change the lock, because then you would be damaging a corporations property. (The lock).

 

It sounds stupid and infuriating, but that's more or less how it's being ruled at the moment.



Kasz216 on 26 January 2013
mysticwolf said:
How would they even approach enforcing this?
Maybe the police are going to go door to door and check your phones lol


I think it's more... cellphone companies like AT&T will now have the right to sue boost mobile if boost mobile hooks up your AT&T phone to their network.

So it's more about the big established companies using this regulation to bully smaller companies to be stuck with a second rate product, because if they hook up too many phones they'll sue.



darkknightkryta on 26 January 2013
NintendoPie said:
I wonder how they are going to enforce this.
Maybe they will put detectors in new phones so that when you try to unlock them the SWAT can break down your doors and windows so they can arrest you? Hmm... that seems about right!




NintendoPie on 26 January 2013
darkknightkryta said:
NintendoPie said:
I wonder how they are going to enforce this.
Maybe they will put detectors in new phones so that when you try to unlock them the SWAT can break down your doors and windows so they can arrest you? Hmm... that seems about right!


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