(Consumerist)A week after the full Congress agreed to pass legislation making it once again legal to unlock a cellphone you own without the permission of your current wireless carrier, President Obama is signing it into law. It’s been a nearly two-year ordeal to right the wrong perpetrated in the fall of 2012 by the Librarian of Congress, who used his discretion to reinterpret the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to state that cellphones are effectively the property of your wireless carrier, even if you’ve long since paid full price for the phone. The LOC’s industry-backed argument was based on the idea that the apps and other software required to run cellphones is not purchased, but is instead licensed by the user.

 

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