The Fight Isn't About Unlocking Mobile Phones, But Whether You Actually Own What You Bought
from the unlock-everything dept
One of the reasons that we're so concerned about the weak proposals introduced in Congress concerning mobile phone unlocking is that they all seek to add yet another layer of duct tape to outdated copyright law. As we've pointed out for years, every time technology bumps up against copyright, rather than fix the problem, Congress tries to rush in with some duct tape narrowly focused on just that issue. It creates a huge mess of a law and does little to nothing to fix the actual problem.Kyle Wiens has an excellent opinion piece over at Wired that points out that the focus shouldn't be on unlocking mobile phones, but on our rights to unlock everything we own. This is what ownership is supposed to be about -- and it's that right of ownership that copyright maximalists, and companies abusing copyright law, have been seeking to strip from the public over and over again.
We really don’t own our stuff anymore (at least not fully); the manufacturers do. Because modifying modern objects requires access to information: code, service manuals, error codes, and diagnostic tools. Modern cars are part horsepower, part high-powered computer. Microwave ovens are a combination of plastic and microcode. Silicon permeates and powers almost everything we own.This is a big and important issue, and the fight over mobile phone unlocking is just one symptom of a broken system that is in desperate need of fixing. And yet, as we noted, this issue isn't even touched in the Copyright Office's call for copyright reform.
This is a property rights issue, and current copyright law gets it backwards, turning regular people — like students, researchers, and small business owners — into criminals. Fortune 500 telecom manufacturer Avaya, for example, is known for suing service companies, accusing them of violating copyright for simply using a password to log in to their phone systems. That’s right: typing in a password is considered “reproducing copyrighted material.”
As Wiens points out, this is not what copyright law is supposed to to.
It hasn’t always been that way. Copyright laws were originally designed to protect creativity and promote innovation. But now, they are doing exactly the opposite: They’re being used to keep independent shops from fixing new cars. They’re making it almost impossible for farmers to maintain their equipment. And, as we’ve seen in the past few weeks, they’re preventing regular people from unlocking their own cellphones.If we really believe in true property rights, there should never be a question about the legality of unlocking a product you legally purchased.
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The thing is that Mike is trying to make this a referendum on the DMCA, and thus copyright law, and that's nothing but a dead end for him.
If you said to the White House, "thanks for doing away with the unlocking phone issue, can we now do away with the DMCA?" they'd laugh at you and consider you a crazy zealot-type person.
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A false choice.
Accepting copyright does not require accepting a SUBSET of the DMCA. Rejecting one element of the DMCA does not require rejecting copyright entirely.
Rejecting one element of the DMCA doesn't even require rejecting the rest of the DMCA.
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Maybe the original operating system, but I deleted that (hopefully, I can delete what I don't own when it is on my property).
The rest is just platic and metal, i paid for the platic and metal with cash for a price described as the SELLING PRICE. The iphone is made in china, so I guess I cant resell it, I just use it for myself.
I thought is wasn't hard to understand?
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If you own it, it is no one else's business what you do with it, so long as you aren't harming anyone else with it. But if you break it while modifying it, you're the one who gets to buy a new one.
If you didn't buy it, but leased it instead, then of course the company can forbid you to tinker with it. But if it breaks before the end of your contract, the company is the one on the hook to replace the equipment.
The companies want to maintain lease-level rights over the hardware while passing every cost on to the customer. That's not how it works in the real world.
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If I buy an Xbox, do I have the right to repair it to keep it in working order? Let's say that the hard drive dies, do I have the right to replace it in order to continue being able to use it?
Well guess what, the DMCA makes it impossible to do that legally. Xbox hard drives are specially formatted and tied to the system that they were installed in. In order to install a new drive, you have to mod/jailbreak the system, which is illegal thanks to the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. So even if the problem is something minor that you're technically capable of fixing yourself, you're not allowed to.
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Expecting a modified XBox to be usable on XBox Live isn't too reasonable, as the company does have an interest in not allowing mods, since most mods are used to cheat.
But it shouldn't be a criminal act to use it as a media center controller that never connects to Microsoft's network. Either you own it or you don't. If you own it, it's yours. If you don't own it, then if it wears out, Microsoft owes you a new one. Is your XBox your property or is it leased? Each condition has different legal rights and obligations attached to it, and you can't cherrypick just the ones you want.
If I buy a car in, say, Seattle, I shouldn't be locked into only driving it in Seattle. There should not be a chip in it that kills the ignition at the city limits. If there is such a chip, and I disable it so I can drive to visit my mother a few blocks outside the city limits, it shouldn't be a criminal act.
If I move to San Francisco, I should be able to use my car that I paid full market price for there as well. I shouldn't have to buy a totally new car when my old one works just fine and has all my stuff in it.
Yes, if I lease a car, I might have contract terms in the lease saying I can't drive it to certain places (for example, a common term in such leases is not being allowed to cross national borders with the car). If I paid a subsidized price below market value for the car, I might expect contract terms to come with it. But if I paid full market value for that car, it's mine and I'll drive it anywhere I like.
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Expecting a modified XBox to be usable on XBox Live isn't too reasonable, as the company does have an interest in not allowing mods, since most mods are used to cheat.
How does replacing a defective hard drive with a new, blank one, let you cheat? Why doesn't the console see that it's a different hard drive and ask if you want to format it?
By not allowing users to replace the hard drive, they are encouraging people to mod their consoles to get around this limitation.
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Well guess what, the DMCA makes it impossible to do that legally.
I think you're mistaken. You can't put just any hard drive in there, but if you buy a (massively overpriced) XBox hard drive, you can replace it just fine.
If you want to hack it so you can put a normal hard drive in, then you risk getting banned from XBox Live, though I'm not sure it's actually a DMCA violation.
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If you want to hack it so you can put a normal hard drive in, then you risk getting banned from XBox Live, though I'm not sure it's actually a DMCA violation.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but it's my understanding that the only thing special about the Xbox hard drives is that MS specially formats them and locks them to the console that they're installed in. As far as I know, the hard drives themselves are just off the shelf parts.
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Just for the sake of argument, let's say that Xbox hard drives are somehow special. Why is that? What do they do, other than prevent a user from replacing them, that a normal hard drive can't do? What is the point of using a special piece of hardware that prevents a user from replacing a defective part?
It's not as if a new, blank hard drive from Western Digital or Maxtor is magically going to allow you to cheat at games or get stuff for free. It's just a storage device.
That's like saying that allowing a race car driver to replace the gas tank on their car will allow them to cheat.
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I don't think the drive is locked to the console, because you can just buy a new (xbox specific) drive and use it. It's possible the console writes something to it that makes it unusable on any other console, but I've never heard of such a thing.
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If you have actually bought something (as opposed to renting or leasing), then you have bought all the respective rights inherent in the property you have bought.
And property rights are not "creatures of statute" (unlike copyright laws). This means that you do not need explicit authorization under statute, do do whatever you like with your property. Those rights are inalienable - "natural rights," in the parlance of the Founders.
This is why it's called the "first sale" doctrine. The first sale is where the copyright holder loses their rights in that particular copy.
They do retain rights in other copies - no matter who makes them. The fact that you can't manufacture and distribute other copies of property that you own makes copyright a limitation on inalienable property rights. In fact, that is the nature of a government-granted monopoly right, which is what copyright is (intentionally).
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> then later taken away?
The right to be free from misleading corporate bullshit where I'm either an owner or a renter depending on what's most advantageous at any given moment to the corporation that 'sold' the thing to me.
The right to not be marketed to as 'buying' and 'owning' something only to find out in obtusely-phrased microscopic print that all of that stuff in 97-point font was just bullshit and lies.
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Go on, continue not reading the fucking articles.
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You win the prize for being silly enough to draw me out.
No, it's NOT natural law. HOW can it possibly be a natural if you're using some corporations totally artificial equipment EVERY time you call? -- Natural rights exist outside of society: they can be taken away by others, but when you get into complexities like the phone system, it's definitely NOT natural.
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You keep saying its not difficult, but then you cant give an easy answer.
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Translation: The only rights people have are the ones clearly spelled out by law.
Apparently that means that you're breaking the law by posting here, since I can't find any law that specifically says it's legal to post comments on web sites. And as you've stated, anything that isn't specifically marked as legal, isn't.
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Property rights. The right to own what's in your possesion. The right to do with your property as you see fit.
People own exactly what they have bought. If certain rights are reserved to others and those rights are not purchased by you, then guess what, you don't own those rights. It's not hard to understand.
If I buy something I don't expect someone to be able to take me to court over the use of it. Especially not for doing something like adding value to an item by unlocking it with a password.
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You CAN do whatever you wish with your property. But it's not totally yours when you've agreed to interface with some corporation's equipment; they get to set some terms.
By the way, kids, you're all overlooking the possibility of mailicious hacking to get free services off the telco. -- That is, you're all commenting as if malicious use and theft couldn't occur, because in reality IF you could STEAL service, you WOULD.
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Let's assume at first that you're not referring to the manufacturer, but rather the telco. What would they have rights to? If the device wants to work, that means it needs to have certain capabilities and act/respond appropriately as well as likely have the necessary cedentials for service. That's in the telco contract. Fine, but that's not the arguement in this article or that anyone is making here. In fact most of us are good with this portion.
Now let's assume you're referring to the rights of the manufacturer. What harm could I possibly be doing if I unlock it? I could understand that voiding the warranty (becuase it's changing the use of the device), but I don't see the copyright/legal basis for any issues.
Even worse, if the manufacturer still has rights, what about (as this article and many others allude to) a case where I build up a collection of 100 Blue Ray digital copies (legally), but then the manufacturer decides to go down without allowing me to make a copy? I lose all 100 because the manufacturer still has rights? What's the incentive to buy those as digital copies then (especially when they are near/full price) instead of the hard disk?
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He's so right, these people would steal water if it fell from the sky and they were surrounded by it, even if prices for water were reasonable.
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I do hope you're being sarcastic with the second sentence, but I honestly can't tell. Since the other trolls here have gone off the deep-end and said that people shouldn't be able to own their phones at all...
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On the other hand ... rain. You might need to start building that boat.
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That's total bullshit. This exactly the kind of nonsense that got AT&T in trouble with the federal government over anti-trust.
Using my phone with AT&T doesn't make it any less my product. Doesn't matter if it's a land line or a cell phone.
You're basically arguing for a total corporatocracy where only corporations have rights and they strip everyone else's through contract and un-paid web forum shills.
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Easy question to answer. What are you not allowed to do with the property that you purchased?
Those are the property rights that are stripped away.
In this particular case, it is the right to modify the property that you legally own. A right, by the way, that is not a right granted to authors in 106 - hence is not stripped away from property owners.
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The anti-circumvention clause only hurts people who want to play by the rules while the pirates just ignore it like they already did with copyright law prior to it's passing.
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The anti-circumvention clause only hurts people who want to play by the rules while the pirates just ignore it like they already did with copyright law prior to it's passing.
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Actually the safe harbor provisions are nice. Let's just keep that part and get rid of the rest.
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And why do we care if we own it?
Yet here we are listening to Mike and Co. arguing that it's absolutely essential that we be able to OWN our content. DRM and phone locking is bad because we won't own it.
Why? No one else on the Internet wants to own anything but somehow we're supposed to want to own our digital books and our phones.
I submit that it's all part of the wacko obsession of this site to hate upon either the artists or the phone companies, two of the sworn enemies of Big Search.
Why would I want to "own" my phone? Why would I want to pay $600 up front for the phone when I can let the phone company tie up their capital and rent it out to me with a higher monthly fee? I know owning is right for some of the people out there, but I think most would rather avoid the hassles of tying up their money for so long.
The same goes for textbooks. If I own my textbook, I have to pay more up front and hope that I can get it back later when I resell it. The First Sale doctrine looks like a pain in my butt that forces me to go through all of the trouble to resell things. I would much rather "rent" my books from someone and pay less.
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In case you don't realize, people will want the OPTION of either paying upfront for a phone, or going on contract. People want the OPTION of either renting or buying. Not of having the government forcing renting down our throats.
I want to pay for my property. I want to own it. Is that really so bad?
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You evidence a total lack of following laws and cooperation in a complex society, and are only fit to be a tyrant. Need to buy your own little island, kid, and quit bothering civilized people.
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The problem here is you. You've conflated two very separate things, buying, owning and unlocking the SMARTPHONE with access to the mobile network.
The US public wants the right to do what they want with the things they buy. If they rent the smartphone under a plan but unlock it anyway, then the telco already has the right to go after them for breach of contract, with an early termination fee, to recoup the cost of the phone. There's no need to drag in the DMCA's anti-circumvention into this.
Oh, by the way, how would I buy the island? According to you, I shouldn't have the option to buy anything, only rent.
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> According to you, I shouldn't have the option
> to buy anything, only rent.
And also according to him, if you had the means to buy an island, that's only more evidence that the government isn't taxing you enough.
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What makes you think they can dictate terms to me?
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I maintain that whether or not you buy the phone on terms (subsidized), you own the phone and should be able to do anything you want with it. Unlock it, grind it up, whatever.
Doing so doesn't relieve you of the obligation you took on with the subsidy -- something the contract recognizes by charging early termination fees. So the phone provider still gets the contracted-for money regardless of what you've done with the phone.
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Oh wait.. sorry, I am not in the USA I'm part of that 95% of the human population (where you stated firstly to "Look around the world") that is allowed to:
* Tinker with anything for legal purposes (and legal means anything that is not specifically criminal)
* Unlock or change IN ANY WAY any device for any reason at any time we so wish
* backup for personal purposes digital goods
* Not have to worry about the draconian structure and removal of due process inherent in the US's DMCA
* Have the seller repair/replace/refund for faulty goods whether we use an 'authorised repairer' or not since claiming an exclusivity on 'authorised repairers' is unlawful itself.
* and many more consumer centric equitable rights that are inherent, statutory and can not be removed by contracts, EULA's, or other trickery by mostly (because they don't know better) US corporations
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So why can't distributors honestly say they are only renting it? Because it doesn't look attractive. So they are playing on false expectations to gain more customers. If they do that, customers should treat that content as bought in return, and let the distributors swallow their anger over the fact that their DRM was scraped to ensure that content is really owned by the user.
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Now, if you would like, the rest of us are talking about the property rights being taken away for things we are told that we are buying, but are really being treated as if we're just renting them.
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The only way to have low upfront costs and bundle the real price into the monthly bill is to prevent people from taking the phone to a different provider. You can't have easy terms and unlocking.
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Besides, weren't you just a while ago arguing for only the one choice, that of renting? Now suddenly, you're saying that the only choice will be to pay full price. Hmm...and what if people do pay the full price? What rights to to their own property do they have then?
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No one is even talking about taking away mobile operator subsidized contracts. Verizon would still be able to give away a new iPhone for "free" with a 2-year contract. The right to unlock a phone means I have the ablitity to take that phone to a different carrier AFTER THE 2year CONTRACT IS UP.
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You do realize that it doesn't cost anywhere near $600 for Apple to manufacture an iPhone, right? Electronics always have insane markups because the general public has no idea of the true cost of electronic devices.
Back in the late 70s, Atari cartridges used to sell for about $30 each. Know what they cost to manufacture? $4. About 1/7 of the price that they were selling for.
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If I take a 24 month contract that eventually costs me $1000 and I get a phone that _retails_ at $600, that the network purchased for $300. The network only cares that I keep paying, so they can recoup their $700 in previously agreed line rental. They couldn't care less if I use the phone they provided or not.
I'm from the UK where many contract phones are already unlocked or networks are obliged to unlock them for a small fee (£15 - £20). The only reason they lock them in the first place is to discourage customers from defecting to other networks. We have no DMCA and no restrictions on unlocking, it can be done at any market stall or any high street shop for as little as £5 and we can still get all the newest phones, heavily subsidised on contract.
If your government panders to the networks' controlling desires then you'll find the networks abusing their privileges and imposing draconian rules. People will *think* availability of subsidised phones is dependant on strict controls but it's simply not true.
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And on the mark-ups subject.
When you look at these deals, realising that you can't obtain the phone at a reasonable price (e.g. $300 in the example) then it makes a lot of sense to take the $1000, 2 year plan instead of spending $600 and having to make separate arrangements for connectivity.
The mobile phone business is a demonstration of price fixing at it's best. I'd much rather governments got involved in the massive disparity of prepaid vs contract phone prices, to redress the balance and provide a benefit to the public. It seems like governments are usually far more interested in protecting multinational corporations than their own citizens.
BTW, whether you buy a phone outright or receive it in a contract deal, it's your property. It isn't subject to finance nor is it rented or hired. At least that's how things are in the UK; the phone belongs to you.
Therefore, the only interest that the manufacturer and/or network retain is in their warranty obligations. Of course, they'll use any excuse (such as rooting/jailbreaking) to deny costly warranty services.
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Last I checked contracts had the force of law, if, you can still offer subsidized phones to people who want they just won't be able to not pay you, they could however unlock the phone and go elsewhere but still having to pay you for the contract.
Has anything changed?
Contracts are not good enough anymore?
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the rest of the planet and the way they have mobile phone plans and/or prepaid disagrees with you,
Also if you don't think you are paying for the whole FULL retail price (with no discounts ever) under your plan anyway then you are more of a fool than you think. It's just not upfront but instead over a period of x months when you are more than likely paying more in long run too.
But then again the rest of the planet doesn't pay for RECEIVED SMS's either so guess it's about time for the USA to change the way of how it actually treats it's consumers.
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If I own a painting, then I own the painting. I can hang it on my wall, resell it, or paint over it. I can't make a bunch of copies of it and sell them due to copyright, but I can do just about anything else with it that doesn't involve making copies.
But if you take an electronic version of that same painting, put some sort of cheap anti-copy mechanism on it, and I buy THAT, then it would be illegal for me to circumvent the copy protection to do anything with it, even if I would otherwise have every right to do it. Why? Because they think I'll make a bunch of copies? That's ALREADY illegal.
"I would much rather 'rent' my books from someone and pay less."
Many universities do offer book rentals. It's your choice whether to buy or rent. But if you do buy, you should not have to seek permission to resell.
You seem to hate first sale in general. Would you seriously make rummage sales illegal? Do you have any idea how wasteful it is to make people throw everything away instead of letting someone else use it?
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Face it. You can't have low, upfront prices without locking the phones. Locking makes it easier for people to afford fancy phones and it lets them finance them easily.
If you want to own it like a car, you can always pay close to $1000 for that right. AT&T offers it on every single phone in their inventory.
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In my view this seems like a petty thing to do that servers to manipulate the customer only. A contract is a contract you either finish it or buy out of it. What difference does the device make?
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Why not? I don't see the connection at all. Please elucidate.
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Second a contract is a contract, the locking is just ice on the cake, the contract by itself has the force of law behind it or contracts became jokes?
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> anything but somehow we're supposed to want
> to own our digital books and our phones.
The fact that you don't want to own things is hardly justification for passing laws prohibiting others from doing so.
Your personal desires aren't the objective benchmark by which all mankind is judged.
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For example, They can sell a car model that is locked for driving outside the state, and then sell you the same car for much more, except that this time it works everywhere.
You're essentially held hostage to the manufacturer's desires.
If you want to change the software in your phone because it doesn't suit your needs, you should be able to do it! It's not a corporation's business to choose what I can do with my devices, and having anyone control my devices certainly isn't in my best interests either (copyright is about the public interest, remember?).
The manufacturer shouldn't be able to dictate their terms without negotiating at all and forcing me to either accept or be left without a car or a mobile phone.
Even worse would be if what I needed wasn't offered by anyone. What should I do there? Ram my phone up my butt? No! I should be able to modify the software!
All smartphones ship with data-collecting bloatware now. I can't remove it. Should I have to tolerate bloatware installed by the manufacturer, which is absolutely superfluous to the phone's correct functioning and serves no other purpose other than fattening the manufacturer's pockets? The answer is totally NO. I should be able to remove it!
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Thats you choice, where you fail is assuming everyone else must want the same as you.
You see, your level of thinking is elementary school level.
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I love this childish argument Magic Mike pulls out from time to time. If we ***REALLY*** believed in something, we'd agree with his silly extremist view. LMAO.
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Mar 19th, 2013 @ 1:41pm
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If I believe in property rights, then naturally I must also believe I own the right to unlock my smartphone that I legally purchased.
God...go back to kindergarten. I think you need to repeat those years about five or six times if that's the best you can do. I want REAL debate, not having to puncture apart weak statements without trying.
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Sorry but I am more impressed with farm tractor that the farmer can not use because he can not access the repair manual because of copyright.
I am also impressed by the mechanic's bill for giving my car a tune up something I did in a previous life in my father's garage 40 years ago and I can not now do because of copyright on manuals.
If I bought the phone I or my carrier should be able to place any operating system on it I choose since it is MY hardware.
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Ownership for the life of the creator unless the creator transfers those rights (including by death to direct descendents) then all ownership rights expire 20 years later + two seven year extensions. PublicDomain = true or die
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That's not why DRM is bad. DRM is bad because it prevents law-abiding citizens from engaging in legal activities -- often including simply using what they paid for in the very way the manufacturer intended.
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Good News! Student Wins Supreme Court Copyright Decision
"A former USC student who bought textbooks in his homeland of Thailand and sold them in the United States won a major Supreme Court ruling on copyright law that gives foreign buyers of textbooks, movies and other products a right to resell them in the United States without the permission of the copyright owner."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/supreme-court-decision-copyright.html
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or better yet, I just signed my 2 year contract and have my new shiny smart phone, happily I walk out of the store and a near by Jogger runs into be, knocking my new shiny smart phone out of my hand and it smashes into a thousand tiny pieces, does the phone company provide a new phone for me at NO CHARGE??
if the first part is no, why did I sign a 2 year contract to "pay" for the phone?
if no to the second scenario, how can they tell me what to do with my phone if I am not RENTING it?
to me, the phone company's rights ends at the cell tower, not in my pocket
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Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/you-dont-own-your-cellphones-or-your-cars/
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That's how it was originally.
That's how they should have kept it.
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