Jailbreaking iPhone is legal, Apple can do nothing. US Copyright Office and the Library of Congress refused to accept Apple’s appeal to criminalize “jailbreaking” on Monday.Jailbreaking is the hacking of iPhone and install those applications which are not available by Apple itself. At the issue of jailbreaking, James Billington, librarian of congress assured that jailbreaking don’t violate Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCR). That’s why he didn’t accept the proposal of Apple.
Apple’s objections of installing and use of unauthorized applications were rejected and Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, said, “When one jailbreaks a smart phone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smart phone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses”.
Peter also declined apple’s arguments that hacking of iPhone violates US Copyright Law. Shading light on the same topic, Peter told that hacking is based on pirated copies of smart phone’s boot leader and operating system that’s why it’s not illegal.Apple submitted their application in the month of February, 2009 in the Copyright Office. This was done when EFF asked for CDMA exemption in 2008 gadgets jailbreaking.
The thing is Apple is against of jailbreaking but EFF and technology companies wish Copyright office to allow user to install those applications which are not available in Apple’s app store.
The left part of the story is the arguments between CDMA and Apple, why Mozilla and Opera stop to create iPhone version of their “Firefox” and “Opera”? Firefox refused to develop a version for iPhone but Opera produced Opera mini for iPhone users.The bottom line is that this day will be in history as the day when all iPhones got finally FREE
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