Well at least I can tether for free from my i4 without paying AT&T their tethering rates and without jailbreaking my phone. That's all I need.
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U.S. Government to Explicitly Allow iPhone Jailbreaking
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Fine but I don't believe that Apple should have to support jailbroken phones. Apple needs to clearly state that if you jailbreak then you are on your own. I am also curious as to why this would be limited to mobile devices.. why not all devices e.g. the Wii, all the resent Wii updates have been nothing more then ways to prevent homebrew setups which are similar to the idea behind jailbreaking.
Whoa! Wonder what Apple's official remarks will be on this? I personally can't believe how awesome this is! 
Well, this is good (even if not a major change). And I hope it means Apple won't be able to deny hardware service for jailbroken devices. I have no problem with Apple saying 'no software support unless you reload the un-jailbroken iOS on your device", but they shouldn't be allowed to deny hardware warranty for software changes that hurt their feelings.
It'll be interesting how Apple reacts.
It'll be interesting how Apple reacts.
so this allows (makes it legal) u to download apps that are not approved by apple and it wont void your warrantee. so i could jailbreak and get mifi and not void my warrantee or contract.
I only jailbreak just to unlock it so I can use T-Mobile. Oh and to get the features that should already be on the iPhone.... A2DP/AVRCP, MMS, etc.
I think a couple of you misread my point. I'm not comparing jailbreaking to piracy at all.
Jailbreaking is a form of circumvention of a system with protections in it designed to disallow you to modify the original in any material way.
The DMCA concerns not just piracy but makes illegal the mere circumvention of digital copyright protection schema, e.g. reverse engineering such software/hardware.
So what I'm comparing is one circumvention of a system to another circumvention of a system. In one case, it's legal. In the other, it's not.
That's an interesting statement on the power of certain lobbyists to convince the government that taxpayer resources should be spent enforcing what really ought to be a civil matter, if anything. (that being the circumvention of copy protection systems, not the actual act of piracy/distribution of protected works).
You don't have to crack OS X or Windows to be able to run Photoshop. It's open to run anything that a dev writes.
In reality this in no way whatsoever forces Apple to provide service and support for jailbroken handsets.
What it does do is removes the vagueness of whether jailbreaking an iPhone is in violation of the DMCA.
Apple is still well within their rights to refuse service if you have made unauthorised modifications to your iPhone.
What it does do is removes the vagueness of whether jailbreaking an iPhone is in violation of the DMCA.
Apple is still well within their rights to refuse service if you have made unauthorised modifications to your iPhone.
In your opinion. How about try it before you knock it so harshly. Wow, negative much?
No Apple can still say your modifications have voided the warranty. Realistically speaking, nothing has changed. Jailbreaking was implicitly allowed before.
So, all this does is not make it illegal right? You still violate the terms of Apple's EULA (which aren't enforceable), the majority of iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch users will go on as they are with their standard devices and those who previously jail-breaked will continue to do so, not updating to latest iOS releases until the jailbreaking community have managed to circumvent the protection. So, Status Quo?
On a side note, what does this mean to chipping/modding/installing ubuntu on XBOXes, PS3s, Wiis and the like? Surely these are in a similar-vein?
Btw, I've never jailbroken my iPod Touch or iPhone, but believe that a user has every right to do so should they wish, providing they acknowledge that they may lose some official support from Apple should they do so.
On a side note, what does this mean to chipping/modding/installing ubuntu on XBOXes, PS3s, Wiis and the like? Surely these are in a similar-vein?
Btw, I've never jailbroken my iPod Touch or iPhone, but believe that a user has every right to do so should they wish, providing they acknowledge that they may lose some official support from Apple should they do so.
wow, this is were my tax money is going?
that's what happens when you think like a socialist/communist. you see who's on top, and you figure out ways to bring them right back down. whoever is on top MUST be doing something wrong. in our brave new world, everybody gets a trophy, but nobody actually wins.
Actually, this is the government un-meddling. The government is providing an exception to a law that otherwise restricts your rights to do things. In other words, you have more rights and freedoms than you did yesterday. This is the opposite of government meddling, unless your belief is that only corporations should have freedom.
No. This has nothing to do with warranty or contracts.
Apple has no oblatgtion to support jailbreaking. These new rules just mean they can't do anything to you if you do like cancel your warranty.
Does anyone bother to read the original post?
Apple had claimed iPhone Jaibreaking was illegal under the DMCA. The Government has checked the law and said it isn't.
They are not telling Apple how to run their company, just clarifying a legal issue.
No, it doesn't mean that at all. They can still cancel your warranty. You just can't be fined or imprisoned under the DMCA.
Isn't DMCA digital copyright? How is that different from regular copyright? I am not a lawyer, and I am aware you know far more about this than I do,
I don't see how BUYING OSX breaks a DMCA. A hackintosh with a purchased version of OSX is in no way pirated at any point. So I don't see how that break's any copyright.
Anyway, my point was, this change seems to sound like the govt. saying "Hey, these people bought these things, they can do whatever the heck they want with it." That sounds awfully similar to the idea of "Hey, these people bought OSX, they can do whatever the heck they want with it." Without getting into the legal minutia that lay people like me have no idea whatsoever about, the actual concepts seem nearly identical in justification.
Congratulations for posting the most inane response on MacRumors. The person is stating it's not the role of the government to force Apple to potentially support jailbreaking. And he's right. Broad government intervention in consumer affairs is a slippery slope. I know a lot of people like their jailbroken iPhones (mine is jailbroken) but accepting this type of government mandate is dangerous. If you don't understand why it's dangerous, you're an uninformed drone. If you buy something and screw it up yourself, knowing beforehand you could screw it up, neither the company that made the product nor the company you bought it from should be forced to support it. What's next? The government forces hard drive manufacturers to support drives you dismantle, breaking their seals when it clearly says "breaking this seal voids your warranty"? Again, it's a slippery slope.