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Comex weighs in on iBooks Jailbreak Issue

MikePA said:
This has nothing to do with how you access it, the Library of Congress, or anything else you mentioned.

Put yourself in the position of the the owner of the content for just a second. You have entered into a contract with Apple to sell your copyrighted content. You want assurances from Apple they will protect your content from being illegally distributed. The content owner knows Apple has iBooks locked down on a stock iPhone but they are not sure about jb devices. So they ask Apple, "Clearly you are aware there are jb devices out there. What are you doing to fulfill our contract and protect our content on jb devices?" What's Apple supposed to say, "Nothing."?
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The position of the copyright owner is immaterial. Jailbreaking an i-device is legal. Apple may be appealing that ruling, but to my knowledge there has been no stay given on that ruling by any court. Therefore, my right to play my purchased material on my devices is being illegally prevented. Apple can say whatever it wants re its ability to protect content, the device I own is lawfully mine to do with as I wish. Unless it can be proven that I am illegally distributing copyrighted material, Apple needs to get out of the way of my using my device and my content as I see fit. I am not the lawbreaker here. Apple is. (And I own Apple stock.)
 
Maverick1337 said:
Do you have to reinstall iBooks? I installed it off of iFile but iBooks still doesn't work.
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I had deleted iBooks from my phone, so I did re-install it. From what you're saying it looks like I'll need to delete and reinstall iBooks on my iPad (it's still installed there).

[EDIT] An install of the fix and a reboot seemed to do the trick. No need to re-install iBooks.
 
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ignus graius said:
I had deleted iBooks from my phone, so I did re-install it. From what you're saying it looks like I'll need to delete and reinstall iBooks on my iPad (it's still installed there).

[EDIT] An install of the fix and a reboot seemed to do the trick. No need to re-install iBooks.
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Is this really the legit file? Kinda nervous about something from a random website named hunnypot...
 
Could someone please provide instructions on what to do with the deb file? I have no idea what to do with it. I can download it to my computer but the iPhones mobile safari says that it can't download the file. Sorry for my ignorance but I just don't know how.
 
Justinb51 said:
Could someone please provide instructions on what to do with the deb file? I have no idea what to do with it. I can download it to my computer but the iPhones mobile safari says that it can't download the file. Sorry for my ignorance but I just don't know how.
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I used iFile. Once you install iFile on your phone you should be able to email the .deb to yourself and install it that way (assuming you don't have a native downloading solution on your iPhone).
 
ignus graius said:
I used iFile. Once you install iFile on your phone you should be able to email the .deb to yourself and install it that way (assuming you don't have a native downloading solution on your iPhone).
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Ok I'll install ifile. Once I do that where do I put the file? I had file once before and I vaguely remember there are lots of folder and such.
 
Justinb51 said:
Ok I'll install ifile. Once I do that where do I put the file? I had file once before and I vaguely remember there are lots of folder and such.
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iFile should automatically download it to its Downloads folder. Something like /var/media/Downloads.

The easiest way to install this is to go to Cydia and search for hunnypot. You can install it from there without having to worry about the .deb file.
 
Installed deb file through iFile (via the emailing method) and I just re-downloaded iBooks (I had deleted it before) and can confirm it works. Then I promptly deleted iBooks again LOL. I actually like Kobo better now.
 
Couldn't find Hunnypot in cydia.

Got iFile instead. Emailed it myself and opened with iFile. Just confirmed it worked. Didn't have to uninstall iBooks.
One minute it didn't work, the next it did.
 
jeans94621 said:
This worked out great. Now my jailbreak is perfect. :p
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No worries man, there's a 800 lb gorilla a.k.a fw 4.3 in the corner just waiting to mess it up


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