# 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, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unlocking-your-phone-illegal-now/266328/28 "2013-02-26T22:39:56Z")

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> [@The Dark Knight Movie](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-dark-knight-movie/51395/127):
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> And that’s not just the gov’t. It’s also HOAs who are way worse.
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> 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.
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> 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).

And you are appropriately billed for the portion of the contact you do not fill, to ensure the phone is paid for, and if its not, charge more…let us choose.

WTF How do people just swallow regulation clearly devised thru political purchase power

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