Software Unlocking of Cell Phones: Legal and Illegal

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Over the weekend I (http://bp1.blogger.com/_u2aiR-t24t0/...one2.jpg)wrote (http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com...yed-by-at.html) about how Uniquephones.com (http://www.uniquephones.com/) was forced to halt distribution of its software unlocking product for the iPhone, after receiving a threatening phone call from AT&T lawyers. At the time, I believed the exemption in the DMCA, which I pointed out in the original article, would suffice to permit Uniquephones.com to sell this service - but I may have been wrong.

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