this would be funny if it wasnt so typically stupid and sad......Hub of ...........

Of brain dead idiots.

The Corporations that sell the Sims should be responsible for the registration process and fined if they fail their responsibility. Punitive damages should be added on if the cell is used without a regustered card in a crime or creates financial damages for the buyer.

Naïve in the extreme, and another "simple" answer. The "corporations" (do I detect some of the usual, tired, anti-corp ranting here?) will only pass those costs along, the consumer will be the one who pays, and the problem will continue as before. You don't think you pay enough for cellular in Thailand? Congratulations then, you've found the solution. 'Want to fight crime? Not so much. There are still some slow-learners who think public safety can simply be purchased as the expense of personal privacy and liberty and business productivity. We've learned that it can't. The bad guys just find another angle to exploit, the authorities cancel more liberties, the bad guys take an even bigger bite, and this cat & mouse/whack-a-mole process continues until there's nothing left but an absolute police state and authoritarianism, with underground mafias - corrupt officials in their pockets - and more pervasive and violent criminal activity than before.

The solution, which is not so simple unfortunately, is better, more professional, more informed, much less corrupt policing and crime-fighting.

Sounds like you are describing LOS.