No more unlocking
In 2006 and 2010, the Librarian of Congress had permitted users to unlock their phones to take them to a new carrier. Now that's coming to an end. While the new rules do contain a provision allowing phone unlocking, it comes with a crippling caveat: the phone must have been "originally acquired from the operator of a wireless telecommunications network or retailer no later than ninety days after the effective date of this exemption."
In other words, phones you already have, as well as those purchased between now and next January, can be unlocked. But phones purchased after January 2013 can only be unlocked with the carrier's permission.
Why the change? The Librarian cited two key factors. One is a 2010 ruling that held that when you purchase software, you don't actually own it. Rather, you merely license it according to the terms of the End User License Agreement. The Librarian argued that this undermined the claim that unlocking your own phone was fair use.
Also, the Librarian found that there are more unlocked phones on the market than there were three years ago, and that most wireless carriers have liberal policies for unlocking their handsets. As a result, the Librarian of Congress decided that it should no longer be legal to unlock your cell phone without the carrier's permission.
meh, Apple needs to thank the JB community. without it, I for one, wouldn't be using an iOS device.
Apple is freaking stupid.
If they ever permanently disable jailbreaks, I will jump ship.
And if they got their head out of their ass, they would realize most of their good ideas have come from jailbreaking.
Is the Librarian a judge now? Isn't the Librarian supposed to read and not interpret the law?
The DMCA is an offline version of sopa, it should be repealed.
Dumb I know but I was trying to unjail break my phone and screwed it up instead
FAQS
I phone 4 iso 5.1.1
Rocky Racoon Jail break
Deleted Cydia
Tryed what I can find on this fourm
Please help
Yes everyone knows that it is illegal activity to jailbreak any product of Apple.
Do you have any icloud or itunes backups? If you do erase the iPhone and restore it from a backup that you have this will unjailbreak it. If you do not have a backup this will permanently deleat the iPhone.
Dumb I know but I was trying to unjail break my phone and screwed it up instead
FAQS
I phone 4 iso 5.1.1
Rocky Racoon Jail break
Deleted Cydia
Tryed what I can find on this fourm
Please help
I did a full restore on my (orange) jailbroken iPhone 4 and it worked then I restored from 1 day old backup.
The iPad was never legal to jailbreak in the US. In the 2010 exemption it wasn't part of the proposal because it didn't exist at the time it was proposed. The exemption only lists smart phones. Something the iPad and iPod Touch are not.
My question is: What is the definition of a PHONE? What is the definition of a TABLET? What makes a device a PHONE and not a TABLET? What makes a device a TABLET and not a PHONE?
If I can make calls with a device, does that make it a phone? If so, since I can use Google Voice with Talkatone, is my iPad now a phone? Does that mean my iPad was a TABLET until I installed GV, but it then became a PHONE?
It seems like a distinction without a difference.
Don't you love it when technical people try to talk about law and when lawyers try to talk about technology?
My question is: What is the definition of a PHONE? What is the definition of a TABLET? What makes a device a PHONE and not a TABLET? What makes a device a TABLET and not a PHONE?
If I can make calls with a device, does that make it a phone? If so, since I can use Google Voice with Talkatone, is my iPad now a phone? Does that mean my iPad was a TABLET until I installed GV, but it then became a PHONE?
A phone would be a device that has a cellular voice plan. A tablet with Google Voice does not have one of these and thus is not a phone.
Again, seems like a distinction without a difference.....
So, an iPhone w/o a cellular plan is a tablet? The point is, what makes a device a phone and what makes a device a tablet? The presence of (or ability to have) a cellular voice plan as the determining factor seems like a decision that would be "arbitrary and capricious" and likely to be overturned under the APA.
Wait a minute? You say that unless an exemption is granted, it will be illegal to use an iPad any way we want? That is totally, and completely WRONG! It is completely legal to use an iphone, ipad, imac or any other computer or device that you pay for, any way you want to. There is still something called the Constitution in this country isn't there? You are not renting or leasing these things, you bought and paid for them, and that is the end of the story. It is yours, and you can do whatever you want to do with it. You can not do an illegal act with it, such as stealing songs online or things like that, but as long as your actions are not illegal, you can take the Apple software off of it, or do anything else you want with it. It is a piece of hardware, no different than your car in the driveway. You wouldn't accept anyone telling you that you couldn't drive your car or truck would you? Certainly not. This completely illegal garbage that they are trying to get you to believe is total nonsense. I'm just amazed at how many "sheeple" go along with it. Talk about control, wow! Stand up for your rights people, before it is too late.
A phone would be a device that has a cellular voice plan. A tablet with Google Voice does not have one of these and thus is not a phone.
Actually it's not the plans but rather the cellular antennas that enable the device to be a phone.