awesome things July 25, 2014

You Can Now Unlock Your Cell Phone Without Breaking the Law

By Katie Zavadski

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Good news, closet criminals: Unlocking your cell phone is about to be perfectly legal. The notoriously mercurial Congress passed a bill Wednesday that overrides a portion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act forbidding the practice, and President Obama has said that he looks forward to signing off on it. Unlocking phones had been perfectly legal until 2012, when Congress refused to extend a provision allowing it. Welcome back, freedom.

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