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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:08

Apple Targets Jailbreakers And Unlockers Once Again

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Apple seems to be at it again, trying to stop people from making or using jailbreaks and unlockers on their iDevices. Now the company is looking to the US Copyright Office for assistance and even going as far as using specious arguments to persuade them into helping. These arguments regarding software piracy and copyright infringement are not anything new that hasn’t already been addressed and shot down in the courts decision last July by federal regulators. With these repeated attempts by Apple to get someone to take their side, it’s beginning to seem that they’re taking the path of complaining to as many people as they can in the hopes that one of them will listen and rule in their favor.

This past year new exemptions were released by the Librarian of Congress to the Digital Copyright Millennium Act making it clear that it isn’t illegal to jailbreak or unlock an iPhone. It was obvious that the ruling was directed at Apple as it went so far as to state that there was “no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model”. Apple’s response was almost like that of child throwing a tantrum as after the ruling the company released a statement promising to void any warranty on any unlocked or jailbroken iDevices. While this by all means legal, it seems like more an attempt to scare users by making them choose between jailbreaking or receiving support for their iDevice from Apple. This obviously didn’t stop or even slow the rate of which people jailbroke their products so now we’re seeing Apple try to find outside help once again. NBC news reported that Apple went directly to the Copyright office claiming that “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”. But it’s expected that this attempt will be turned away pretty quickly seeing as the Copyright Office already took a stance on this issue in July stating that “while a copyright owner might try to restrict the programs that can be run on a particular operating system, copyright law is not the vehicle for imposition of such restrictions.” Do you think Apple will ever make any headway on shutting down jailbreaking or will people do it regardless of the laws/punishments the same way music and movies are illegally downloaded?

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[Source: MacDailyNews]

Authors: TechHead

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