Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Apple tells Copyright Office Jailbreaking iPhone is Illegal
;
Mozilla & Skype Support EFF's Request for an Exemption to the DMCA

For the 2009 rulemaking, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an exemption request with the
U.S. Copyright Office to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) related to iPhone jailbreaking
which allows iPhone owners to install iPhone apps that have not been approved on the App Store (due to various reasons).

Things have just got more interesting as Mozilla, Skype and Cydia have added their support behind
EFF's push to get the U.S. Copyright Office to grant DMCA exception so users can jailbreak their
iPhone without fear of copyright infringement penalties.

Apple the current method of jailbreaking the iPhone uses unauthorized modifications
to the copyrighted bootloader and OS, resulting in the infringement of the copyrights in those programs.

EFF's argument is that jailbreaking iPhone is protected under fair-use doctrines, and that the
Copyright Office should grant an exemption because "the culture of tinkering
(or hacking, if you prefer) is an important part of our innovation economy."

However, Apple disagreed and pointed out that few users of jailbroken iPhones actually
used tools (such as PwnageTool and QuickPwn) and did not jailbreak it themselves.


Mozilla's interest in getting a DMCA exemption so that they can
release their mobile browser for the jailbroken iPhone.


Step-by-Step Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 3G running Firmware 2.2.1 using QuickPwn 2.2.5-2 (Windows)


if you want to update your iPhone 3G to firmware 2.2.1 but at the same time
preserve its baseband so that you can also unlock it then you should follow our
step-by-step guide to use Dev Team's PwnageTool
.

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