Boing Boing is a co-signatory to an open letter (PDF) to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, calling on them to fix the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s ban on jailbreaking and unlocking your devices. This laudable effort was spearheaded by Public Knowledge:
“It is important for Congress to remember that people are waiting on them to solve this problem once and for all. We’ve seen that Congress wants to ensure that consumers can unlock their phones, but consumers, entrepreneurs, academics, and public interest organizations all agree that we need lasting solutions to make sure that people can use their wireless devices without fearing copyright laws.
“A minor change to the law is all it would take to end this controversy for good. Beyond that, though, this situation shows there are deeper problems with the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA, and the time is ripe for hearings investigating the harms that come from this law.”
Public Knowledge Asks Congress for a Permanent Fix to Cell Phone Unlocking