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> Christopher S. Reed from the U.S. Copyright Office noted in an email to TechNewsDaily that "only a consumer, who is also the owner of the copy of software on
by diminoten 14y ago
> Christopher S. Reed from the U.S. Copyright Office noted in an email to TechNewsDaily that "only a consumer, who is also the owner of the copy of software on the handset under the law, may unlock the handset."
So if I flash the firmware with a copy of software I own, am I then free to perform the unlocking action?
- saurik 14y agoIt should be noted that the baseband typically runs unrelated software to the actual phone, and one usually has to modify the software of the baseband to unlock it; thereby, when they say "software" they don't, for example, mean something like "CyanogenMod". If, however, your device doesn't have any protection mechanisms on it keeping you from flashing the baseband, and you own the rights to the software you are flashing to the baseband, and that software doesn't keep you from unlocking the phone, then I do not see any way in which the DMCA is relevant. (That said, while I have a vested interest in this sort of thing, I am not a lawyer.)