It really depends on what you root. Apple claims jailbreaking circumvents DMCA due to their access control within apple devices that blocks unapproved iphone apps. It allows users to circumvent the apple store.
The nook softroot doesn't circumvent any B&N store limitation since there is no such limit. B&N hasn't tried to prevent the distribution of soft root software. Jailbreaking, rooting and hacking DRM are all subtly different. Conflate them at your peril.
PS. I don't agree with Apple's statement in any case but the that point is orthogonal to my main point.
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