Sunday, May 29, 2011

Jailbreaking Your iPhones: Legal


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Every three years the U.S. Copyright Office reviews the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and authorizes exceptions to it. Last year they?allowed six exceptions including?jailbreaking and unlocking your phone, and ripping?DVD?s for noncommercial new works.

In the past Apple had the right to charge ?$2,500 ?in a government fine anytime someone ?jailbroke? or changed the operating system on their iPhones. While Apple never levied that a fine be paid it has filed an objection to the current copyright law exceptions. The Copyright Office has also made it legal to ?unlock? your iPhone, letting it use cellphone providers other than AT&T.

Apple, annoyed at the new laws, is now going out of its way?to void any warranties?for jailbroken iPhones. Earlier this month jailbreaking apps were also released for the iPhone 4. Anyone looking to jailbreak their iPhone merely has to google ?jailbreak? for step-by-step instructions. As the iPhone has gotten more and more popular so has jailbreaking, the market for unlicensed apps and software is so huge, it?s starting ?to rival iTunes.

Source: http://hanabi.asijlearning.com/?p=4680

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