Apple has filed comments to the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking committee complaining about jailbreaking and asking that it be deemed illegal. The EFF has specifically requested that jailbreaking be considered fair use because it allows users to improve the iPhone’s overall capabilities.
The EFF writes that Apple is taking umbrage with the cracking of the bootloaders and the OS and that the process of hacking is actually reverse engineering. Apple says jailbreaking compromises user safety and security.
Interestingly, this will probably have no teeth. Apple legal likes to talk a big game but when it comes to actually suing folks – unless it’s some pet project of Steve’s or it’s about hackintoshes – but usually it likes to keep its ass covered and then waits for someone to pop up with some really egregious examples before it starts up the old thresher.
Aple has filed..
Apple has filed…
I don’t think people will care much… just have a look at eBay and how many Apple iPhones are jail broken and how many are being sold daily….good luck in stopping that…
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Err…. I have to be an internet Grammar Nazi… especially since im usually the target of them…. but that article was pretty badly written.
“Aple”
“allows users to improved the iPhone’s”
And others that are more just confusing to follow than gramar problems.
From your previous posts I’ve seen, you’re a pretty good blogger on crunchgear Biggs, I know this isn’t like you, was written in a hurry or while tired or something?
This is very interesting-I agree with Apple about jailbreaking.
I think Apple should lighten up and if they would take a look at the actual changes many developers have created (out of pure desire for improvement without worries of monetary gain) for their flawed iPhone OS, they might be able to make some lemonade from these lemons.
It wont be long before other manufactures put out decent versions of the
“internet enabled touch screen mobile communications device” and embrace the open source communities efforts, when that day comes watch their phone sales soar!
Apple wants money from developers to allow free apps on it (from app store), third party apps not from app store cost no money for developers. Someone who spends time to make an app to offer for free should not have to pay to offer it. Why should apple charge people who want to offer free apps? Greedy.
And the old minded will fall, for there is no reason for them to exist….
I really don’t understand your articles. Could you take English summer school please?
I hate to be the pro-DRM person here (being anti-DRM myself, I’m only providing arguments), but it is Apple’s right to lock the phones, and impose the DRM on them. The “jail” that iPhones are in when they are first sold is just another form of DRM, and it is already illegal to jailbreak them simply because they are DRM.
Although, I’m not against the opinion that it should be legal to unlock them.
Stumbled
Apple should care because of the massive amounts of revenue they get from the app store, and the amount they likely lose to pirates and people who simply get free alternatives from the jailbreak world. Ethics are evidently debatable, but the business is sound.
If they can’t beat them, they should hire them/ sell licenses…