And if I read that correctly, they are not required to unlock your device if you buy it at full retail with the intention of using prepaid.
Exactly, same as it ever was.
This was played like a violin.
1. Exploit a ruling that only a chimpanzee could make (really? the point of copyright laws is to lock a phone to a carrier?).
2. Get everyone up in arms and confuse the issue with bootloader unlocking.
3. Wait for hapless politicians step in.
4. Appease politicians while doing nothing other than what you were doing before - which was wrong and being complained about before the simian ruling.
5. Wait for consumers to rejoice, and ignore the ones that don't - thanks to the partnership with hapless politicians, we're now marginalized as the lunatic fringe.
6. PROFIT!
Last heard in the meeting between the FCC and the carriers - "Gentlemen, we have got to protect our phony baloney jobs!"
PS - For those playing the home version of our studio game - what do you think that the next ruling will be, given that no formal challenge has been made to interpretation by the Librarian from last time?
That everything is fine, because some companies have volunteered to work with an unelected bureaucrat and make up their own rules?
