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IIRC, the code for at least some of those unlocks is available open source. And usually hacks or jailbreaks have a tendency to trend in that direction even when the hackers are charging for it initially. Someone eventually decides to share their code and methods, for the fame or to do a talk, if for no other reason.

The reason I think it will happen fairly quickly in cases like this is that hackers also tend to be more "challenge accepted" as culture whenever the offending restrictive software is particularly obviously stupid or egregious.