Thread: 5.3 Update for Paperwhite -- will it interfere with the jailbreak?
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Old 11-08-2012, 10:16 AM   #56
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Seems like Amazon has now officially declared war on us.
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Amazon is not alone there.

EDIT: Kindle jailbreaking will become illegal in the USA in January 2013.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575...soles-tablets/
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While smartphone jailbreaking remains legal, new rules published by the U.S. Copyright Office dictate that cracking DVDs, gaming consoles, and tablets is against the law.
It turns out that jailbreaking tablets and ereaders such as kindles will become illegal because the DMCA exemption will only include devices that can also be used as a cellphone.

That seems backwards to me -- cellphones are even more vulnerable than wifi-only devices...

EDIT: What is strange about this new ruling is that if you read the HISTORY of the DMCA exemptions, you will see that a reason given for them is so that blind users can listen to their ebooks even if the publisher disabled Text-To-Speech for that ebook. Apparently blind users will now have to rely on listening to their ebooks on a cellphone but NOT an ereader.

EDIT2: It was reported that the new rule has a "grandfather clause" that lets you keep using jailbroken devices, as long as the jailbreak was installed BEFORE January 2013.
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