iPhone jailbreaking made legal

Mongo53

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iPhone jailbreaking (and all cell phone unlocking) made legal

iPhone jailbreaking (and all cell phone unlocking) made legal - Yahoo! News

Apple fought hard against the legalization, arguing that jailbreaking was a form of copyright violation. The FCC disagreed, saying that jailbreaking merely enhanced the inter-operability of the phone, and was thus legitimate under fair-use rules.

The upshot is that now anyone can jailbreak or otherwise unlock any cell phone without fear of legal penalties, whether you want to install unsupported applications or switch to another cellular carrier. Cell phone companies are of course still free to make it difficult for you to do this — and your warranty will probably still be voided if you do — but at least you won’t be fined or imprisoned if you jailbreak a handset.
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Thats why TV service providers will ONLY Rent or Lease the equipment to you to access their system, you own the equipment, you legally can modify it for other than its intended purpose, that is reasonable fair useage rights.
 
Mongo53

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I'm NOT a lawyer, NOT sure if everything in a user agreement can be considered binding, thats the point of the ruling, as well as other points, it unreasonable to put into the user agreement that someone can NOT modify their own property, if has NO effect on the other parties in the user agreement.

Of course, if you modify your property with the intent of breaking the law, thats a different story, but as well, if your intent is to break the law, then the punishment for breaking the law and the law itself are a deterent to modifying property to break the law.

i.e. if you want to modify your phone to run apps other than intended and it doesn't effect the network or other users to do so, NO one should be able to stop you from doing so.

i.e. if you want to modify your phone so that it can access the network without having to pay a fee to use the network, thus steal service, you can't do that, but your already breaking the law stealing the service, so why do you need to ban modifying the phone to steal service? Sorta a mote point.
 
lnmarsh

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So does this mean that the iPhone, for example, can be used on say the Verizon network? Im a little confused...
 
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Verizon network uses a different cell technology (cdma) then att (gsm) I believe, so the current att iphone won't work on the verizon network. But you could modify it to work on any network that uses the same standard as att.

My understanding is that this is why its taking so long for the verizon iphone to come out. They have to redesign the phone around the cdma technology.
 
Mongo53

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Thats my understanding as well, about Iphone being switched to Verizon.

It does mean you can unlock your iPhone to load apps other than you buy at the iPhone Store. You would be able to do the same with other phones, and NOT have to worry about the cell phone company or manufacturer coming after you, because they interpret it as violating a copyright or what ever excuse they use to try to force you to only go to them for apps.

It applies to other phones as well, so another example of a phone that used compatible technology, you could unlock it and switch to another company. Of course early termination of contract fees would apply, and if they are a reasonable amount, that is reasonable.

Like it said in the article, the companies do NOT have to make it easy to unlock the phone either, so its possible this would stay in the pure geek world, unless there was a real demand and someone created a service to do it for the layman, that doesn't have the ability to basically hack the device.

If the companies create some sort of unbreakable or propreitary lock, that might be violating the terms of above, thats debatable.
 
BigSlam123b

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I just jailbroke my iPod touch using the below website. It was amzingly easy and a very pleasant experience. It works on anything running iOS 4.01 and below.

JailbreakMe
 
afjess1989

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Mongo53

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afjess1989 said:
Do you mean DSS boxes for like dish or direct tv? because my parents own theirs.
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I meant for cable, but you right you can purchase your STB for Satellite, if you choose. There's a warning that you can NOT modify them to receive the signal without paying for it. NOT sure if its illegal to mod your STB to do this, but the point is moot, because as soon as you do receive the signal without paying for it, your stealing and breaking the law.

You have to pay the same monthly access fee if you own your STB, the same as if you had it supplied to you for free from the provider, which people assumed was a leasing fee. Which doesn't make sense why someone would do that.

I learned why they do this, Dish at least, will only supply 3 STB's, after that you need to purchase the STB and you'll need to add a switch to the system if you want more than 3 as well.
 
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