nsane.forums Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Apple is seeking support from the federal government in hopes to overturn the recent decision by the courts that legalized jailbreaking. The U.S. Government Library of Congress Copyright legalized jailbreaking and unlocking of devices, allowing the user to run unauthotized applications on the device. Jailbreaking is a term used by the iPhone hacking community to bypass Apple's restrictions on the device, allowing for the user to run programs not approved by Apple on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. NBC News reports that Apple is attempting to overturn the decision made by the courts back in July, in hopes that they will get a ruling in their favour to make jailbreaking and unlocking illegal. Apple's argument is that since jailbreaking has become so wide spread, it just leads to piracy of apps. Current jailbreak technologies now in widespread use utilize unauthorized modifications to the copyrighted bootloader and operating system, resulting in the infringement of the copyrights in those programs. Although Apple may have a point, not every person who jailbreaks their device does it for pirating purposes, but may do it to modify their device and allow alternate carriers or download apps not approved by Apple. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 they cant have it both ways. dmca allows for exception Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Ridiculous. Not everyone performs piracy with a jailbroken iphone. Stupid Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 19, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 19, 2011 Just it. Tired of being bullied by Sony with lawsuits and by Apple asking for jailbreaking to be made illegal, Geohot, the famous iPhone hacker, has suggested Microsoft’s more humane treatment of jailbreakers may be more to his liking.It seems that GeoHat has decided to put his hands on Windows Phone 7. And surprise surprise. Microsoft is said to be supporting him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0nyB Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Just it. Tired of being bullied by Sony with lawsuits and by Apple asking for jailbreaking to be made illegal, Geohot, the famous iPhone hacker, has suggested Microsoft’s more humane treatment of jailbreakers may be more to his liking.It seems that GeoHat has decided to put his hands on Windows Phone 7. And surprise surprise. Microsoft is said to be supporting him.W00t, MS supports it? Well that's odd, :blink:Afterthough: MS taking the old "An enemy of my enemy is my friend" method? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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