On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Chris Foster <cgfoster@gmail.com> wrote:

[By the way this directive is also very unlikely to stop "counterfeiting", grey market phone producers can easily duplicate IMEI's or take them from dead phones, which are much harder to detect without a cross-operator, cross-national mobile equipment registry databases.

The real way to stop such "counterfeiting" is to punish importers not the users, and enforce such standards at points of import and sale, not through such detrimental technological switch offs]