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Americans Are One Signature Away From Legally Unlocking Cell Phones

26

Jul

2014

It may seem like common sense to have phones automatically switch carriers or use new carriers when abroad, but a controversial line in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act had made it illegal in 1998 to unlock a cell phone to switch service providers. After 19 months of petitioning President Barack Obama (amounting to more than 114,000 […]

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Aereo reveals appallingly low subscriber numbers

22

Jul

2014

Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that TV streaming service Aereo was in violation of the Copyright Act, leaving the company dead in the water. But even if things had gone differently, paperwork from the US Copyright Office suggests that the startup was already in trouble. Recode reports that Aereo had 77,596 subscribers at the end […]

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Qualcomm briefly takes down Android code for CyanogenMod, Sony and itself

06

Jul

2014

The Android community just got a big (if brief) scare. In the space of a few days, Qualcomm has both made and retracted a Digital Millennium Copyright Act request that took down 116 code repositories (many of them Android-focused) that were allegedly using the chip makers confidential technology. As it turns out, quite a few […]

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