Representatives of UniquePhones, a UK-based company that was supposed to start offering remote iPhone unlock services today, announced on their blog that they were contacted by a legal firm representing AT&T.
According to UniquePhones:
After saying they were phoning on behalf of AT&T, the law firm presented issues such as copyright infringement and illegal software dissemination. Uniquephones is taking legal advice to ascertain whether AT&T was sending a warning shot or directly threatening legal action. The logistics of different continents as well as it being a weekend factors into how the situation develops.
Until an assessment is made of the potential of legal action, Uniquephones is unable to release the unlocking software for sale. The company spokesperson also said that the company would also be evaluating what to eventually do with the software should they be legally denied the right to sell it. A substantial delay caused by any legal action would render the unlocking software a less valuable commodity as well as creating unforeseen security issues for the company
Stay tuned for further announcements.
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George Hotz, the 17 year old teenager from USA that was the first person in the world to make a full hardware/software unlock of the Apple iPhone, announced that he traded the first-ever unlocked iPhone for a very cool Nissan 350Z.
According to George, he received a Nissan 350Z and three 8GB iPhones in return for the first-ever unlocked iPhone from the founder of Certicell.
If that’s not the coolest payout for unlocking the coolest gadget of the year, we honestly don’t know what is.
More details are available on
George’s blog.
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One of the three methods developed to unlock the Apple (AAPL) iPhone — and the first to attempt to make it commercially available — has hit a legal roadblock, according to an Irish programmer involved in the effort.
On Saturday afternoon, when the software fix was scheduled to be posted for sale here, this press release appeared instead:
iphoneunlocking.com, a subsidiary of UniquePhones
(www.uniquephones.com). was poised and ready to release remote software
unlocking services for the iphone today at 12 noon EST. The sale of
unlocking codes is on hold after the company received a telephone call
from a Menlo Park, California, law firm at approximately 2:54 a.m. this
morning (GMT).
After saying they were phoning on behalf of AT&T, the law firm
presented issues such as copyright infringement and illegal software
dissemination. Uniquephones is taking legal advice to ascertain whether
AT&T was sending a warning shot or directly threatening legal
action…. (link)
John McClaughlin, founder of Belfast-based Uniquephones, told PC World that he was awakened shortly before 3 a.m. local time by a man from O’Melveny
& Myers, a law firm that has worked for Apple in the past. Claiming that he was calling on behalf of
AT&T (T), the man (whose name McClaughlin did not record) offered “friendly advice” that he took as threatening. “If he wants to give me advice, he could have sent me an e-mail,” said McLaughlin.
Calls to O’Melveny
& Myers on Saturday have not yet been returned. Asked to comment, a spokesman for AT&T Wireless replied: “we don’t have anything to offer at this time.”
iphoneunlocking.com was the first group to publicize its efforts to “free” the iPhone to work with other cellphone carriers. It claimed to have achieved partial success less than 48 hours after the device went on sale and started taking e-mail registrations that day (see here). But unlike the other two groups that came forward this week to say they had successfully de-AT&Ted the iPhone (see How to Unlock an iPhone, Three Different Ways), it has yet to provide any proof that it has done so.
For a rundown on some of the legal issues involved, see Engadget’s Is It Illegal to Unlock My iPhone?
Written by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on August 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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iPhone Unlocking.com, a subsidiary of UniquePhones, has issued a press release in regard to their remote software unlocking services for the iPhone. Sales are currently being temporarily postponed due to possible legal actions from AT&T.
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