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[SoNyDiGiTaL]

I guess I speak for a lot of Internet, iPhone,iPad or iPod users when saying that recently there's lots of changes coming up.

First Sopa and Pipa kicked in and created a public outrage all around the world followed by the takedown of the well-known web sharing client Megaupload and retaliation coups by Anonymous. Lots of trouble lies still ahead as it has yet to be decided what happens to ACTA (a far more aggressive anti-piracy law).

Now even more chocking news came up to the surface as Redmondpie released an article about some changes concerning jailbreaking & unlocking.

In 2010 the act of Jailbreaking was declared to be legal in the United States. This was a huge setback for Apple as they invested a high amount of money into anti-jailbreak policies and propaganda.

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fact that jailbreaking, whilst officially legal, would still void any official Apple warranties

They claim that third-party tweaks might influence you iOS experience in any way possible. However we all know that lots of Apple's firmware releases contain tweaks that were once only available in Cydia.

We all awaited that day when jailbreaking became legal and hence we have to sign the new petition to keep it that way.
The petition has been made by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) which defends the act of jailbreaking. Furthermore it is important to know that the iPad is not yet covered under the ruling of 2010 meaning it is not yet legal to jailbreak your iPad.

So sign the petition to avoid a setback for third-party developers and you as user. To join you simply have to go to the EFF's webpage and and comment to the Copyright Office with the links provide of the EFF page.




Source: Remondpie

The Copyright Office needs to hear from people who depend on the ability to jailbreak to write, use, and/or tinker with independent software (from useful apps to essential security fixes) for smartphones, tablets, and game consoles. You can submit comments online at this link.

[Chris230291]

This doesn't just concern iOS users.

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Back in July of 2010, the US government ruled that jailbreaking an iPhone (or rooting an Android device, or whatever you do with other devices out there to unlock them) was all above board and legal and as long as the action wasn’t being carried out to circumvent copy protection.

You’d think that would be the end of the story, but you’d be wrong. It turns out that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the US Copyright Office to declare that unlocking the operating system of smartphones does not violate DMCA and the organization is not only calling on them to renew the exception, but to also expand it to cover tablets and video games consoles.

[SoNyDiGiTaL]

yeah but as this is mostly iOS orientated I kept my focus on iOS

[SayMilesAway]

SoNyDiGiTaL, on 25 January 2012 - 09:38 PM, said:

yeah but as this is mostly iOS orientated I kept my focus on iOS

makes sense lol

[computer]

Oh f**k


Government, let me tell you something. YOU CAN'T F**KING CONTROLL THE INTERNETBLEAVE US ALONE
Apple, let me tell you something. Do you know how many sales you will lose if you make it illegal/stop it total ally? And also IT'S OUR F**KING DEVICE WE PAID YOU A FORTUNE FOR IT LEAVE US ALONE

Edited by Wolvy, 26 January 2012 - 01:10 AM.
Language! :P

[iNooblet]

I don't care if it's illegal to jailbreak ill still do so.

[Wolvy]

Again. Its not exactly something which can be policed and even if it was... What a waste of resources

[SoNyDiGiTaL]

iNooblet, on 26 January 2012 - 02:21 AM, said:

I don't care if it's illegal to jailbreak ill still do so.

sure a lot of users would. but some would feel more "happy" if you were protected by the law.

Furthermore it's important to notice that third party developement would become illegal. The department where apple gets most of their ideas.

[TECH]

Eh, who cares if jailbreaking is illegal again? There would still be a huge jailbreak community. People would still do it.

[Robby]

We did it before and we'll still do it in the future

[TECH]

Robby, on 27 January 2012 - 12:59 AM, said:

We did it before and we'll still do it in the future

Exactly my thoughts.

[SoNyDiGiTaL]

I don't know about europe right now but i guess it's illegal.

right most will continue though

[GentleGunfire]

If it own it and it's my property I'm going to do as wish that's my view

[iPhone]

They can't tell me what I can do with technology

[iCookie]

Well i don't care, i will steal jailbreak my iPod 4 with love.

[GentleGunfire]

ill still jailbreak my phone idc

[SoNyDiGiTaL]

Well they do the same kinda with sopa pipa and acta.

[GentleGunfire]

thats y idc im a jailbreaker an theres nothing anyone can do about it lol

[iNooblet]

GentleGunfire, on 27 January 2012 - 11:49 AM, said:

thats y idc im a jailbreaker an theres nothing anyone can do about it lol

Wow your such a badass

[SoNyDiGiTaL]

haha.