A new article has rised on the website of the EFF where Apple claims that iPhone jailbreaking is illegal (in the US). Apple’s iPhone, now the best-selling cellular phone in the U.S., has been designed with restrictions that prevent owners from running applications obtained from sources other than Apple’s own iTunes App Store. “Jailbreaking” is the term used for removing these restrictions, thereby liberating your phone from Apple’s software “jail. Apple states that opening the iPhone to independently created applications will compromise safety, security, reliability, and swing the doors wide for those who want to run pirated software.
As part of the 2009 DMCA rulemaking, EFF has asked the Copyright Office to recognize an exemption to the DMCA to permit jailbreaking in order to allow iPhone owners to use their phones with applications that are not available from Apple’s store.(e.g., turn-by-turn directions, using the iPhone camera for video, laptop tethering).
The long article can be found here.
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Is chip tuning your car illegal too? Yes, they can choose to cancel the warranty to punish those who won’t obey, but illegal?
another reason to jailbreak
Ok, so what if jailbreak is illegal? arrest me.
Jailbreaking isnt illegal itself, but if you pirate apps it is. Otherwise the dev team would recieve cease and desist orders. If it was sooo bad to apple, they would have fixed the hole when they released the 3G. They only patched the hole with the 2G Touch because they needed a new (thinner) device and the old wouldnt work. Apple has publicly said they will not support jailbreaking, but wouldnt actively block it. Doesnt really matter, since when the new iPhone is released this summer it will probably be unjailbreakable for a while.
FUCK YOU APPLE I PAID 600$ FOR MYPHONE SO NOW I CAN DO WHAT EVER I FUCKING WANT.
i second u ‘g”
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