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February 22, 2014 11:00 am GMT
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Meet Hyv, A Startup That Cant Wait For Phone Unlocking To Be Made Legal
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation on phone unlocking (H.R. 1123). In January 2013, a decision by the Librarian of Congress made it a crime to unlock your phone, with either civil or criminal penalties. Since that time, the resale market has been significantly impacted and websites have shut down offering unlocking services. In the following month over 114,000 Americans signed a White House petition demanding that this decision be reversed and supported our mass campaign, one of the largest online protests since SOPA/PIPA, and then legislation was introduced that has passed committee.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2cOQOlHk9_w/
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