Unlock the iPhone for money, and lawyers may come a'knockin'
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Unlock the iPhone for money, and lawyers may come a'knockin'

Apple and AT&T may have a legal case against unlockers under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), especially if they try to sell software code or devices that unlock the iPhone, the lawyers said. However, there’s a legal exception to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions that allows individual mobile phone users to unlock their devices for use on other networks.

So figuring out how to unlock the iPhone yourself isn't likely to be a DMCA violation, according to the IDG report. But posting instructions or code online, even for free, may earn you a cease and desist letter from an unfriendly lawyer, and selling software or a device that unlocks the phone is inviting trouble, the article adds.

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