# Unlocking your phone = illegal now.

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**Created:** [February 25, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unlocking-your-phone-illegal-now/266328 "2013-02-25T18:30:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unlocking-your-phone-illegal-now/266328/20 "2013-02-26T15:50:58Z")

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> [@THE \*\*iPhone\*\* Thread (GPS, JailBreak, Apps, Etc)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-iphone-thread-gps-jailbreak-apps-etc/52832/9):
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> What’s next?
> 
> After you a buy a house they are going to start telling you what you can and cannot do to it on your own property???
> 
> Oh wait.

And that’s not just the gov’t. It’s also HOAs who are way worse.

I understand why the carrier wants it to be illegal and frankly it’s because there are a lot of people scamming them to get the phones at the subsidized price and then “close” the account causing them to lose millions.

Look at the phone unlocking law like a lease. The phone really isn’t yours until the end of the contact just like a lease really isnt yours. You are in fact renting within a contract. Just like an apartment or house rental, you aren’t allowed to do certain things either to that property (which you paid for).

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