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U.S. Declares iPhone Jailbreaking Legal, Over Apple’s Objections
Federal regulators lifted a cloud of uncertainty when they announced it was lawful to hack or “jailbreak” an iPhone, declaring Monday there was “no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model.” Jailbreaking is hacking the phone’s OS to allow consumers to run any app on the phone they choose, including applications not authorized by Apple. The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked regulators 19 months ago to add jailbreaking to a list of explicit exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ’s anti-circumvention provisions. At stake for Apple is the very closed business model the company has enjoyed since 2007, when the iPhone debuted.
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The geek masses are anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the next wonder gadget at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas later this week. What’s more, Apple is expected to drop the tablet bomb in San Francisco this month. But overlooked and lurking behind this gadget envy is an important regulatory decision -– one expected in weeks on whether to authorize an iPhone jailbreak .
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