U.S Carrier Locked Smartphone Unlocking Become illegal

United States users of a carrier locked smartphones bought from a certain network operator and used to unlocked it to use in other carrier will become illegal. What? NO! Heck this is true, according to +Eric Ravenscraft at +Android Police headlines.

For a bit of context, first, let's take a look at exactly what has changed. This is not new, sweeping legislation. What happens is that every three years, the Librarian of Congress issues a set of exemptions to the DMCA. This is to help account for changes in technology so the law doesn't stay woefully behind the times (though entire articles could be written about that itself).
In 2006 and in 2010 (the last round of exemptions took a while to process), the Library specifically allowed unlocking phones in order to use handsets on other providers. The 2006 ruling pointed out that the issue had little do with protecting copyright and more to do with protecting a business model (a fair point!), and the 2010 ruling merely upheld the previous exemption. However, it's not getting renewed a third time. So, how does this affect you? Well, that depends on what your needs are.

Again, this law is only passed in the United States and will be affecting U.S. users only, bad news to those with unlocking businesses. All unlockers from other  parts of the world, still have the fun from jailbreaking iPhones and unlocking Android and Windows based smartphones,

You can read more about this report at Android Police and has been also reported at Digital Trends a few months ago.