How did we all miss this ruling in 2010?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366993,00.asp
The gist of the article shows that first and foremost Apple thinks they do indeed OWN the iPhone you thought you bought.
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Do you want to jailbreak that iPhone 4? Go right ahead, says the Library of Congress.
The Copyright Office within the LOC on Monday ruled that jailbreaking a smartphone – particularly Apple's iPhone – is permissible under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) fair use provisions.
Jail breaking is "innocuous at worst and beneficial at best," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington wrote in his decision.
By law, Billington is required to review the DMCA every three years to see if there are any emerging technologies that might be exempt from the law's ban on circumventing access to copyrighted material. The Copyright Office asked people to submit their recommendations for what technologies it should consider, and of the 19 submissions, Billington on Monday exempted six.
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Second the feel they own the users rights period and could not give a rat's pa-tootie about you the users only their own image. So stoopid people better not use their "licensed" hardware, they stoopidly assumed they were BUYING, devices as they choose.
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"Apple's objections relate to its interests as a manufacturer and distributor of a device, the iPhone," the Copyright Office concluded. "The harm that Apple fears is harm to its reputation."
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Now feel free to argue the minutiae, you know you want and are going to anyway. Have fun with this news from last year.