CNN: Jailbreaking iPhone Apps is now legal

[JWLaRue]

The U.S. Copyright Office has now siad that iPhone users can now legally hack their phones to download applications that aren't in Apple's App Store.

The full article can be found here:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/26/tech...n_bin&hpt=Sbin

-Jeff

[nrapallo]

Now, someone TELL Apple....

[jasonfedelem]

Interesting article by Nilay Patel of Engadget on what this means in the larger sphere:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/d...gal-not-quite/

[Iphinome]

and more on this from the EFF https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26

[Logseman]

Aside of that, text-to-speech circumventions are allowed for the blind to be able to use ebooks. A nice little step.

[DaniellY]

So let’s sit back and wait for everyone to jailbreak their iPhones and cut Apple out of the lucrative App Store market … (c)

[Hellmark]

Any particular reason why you felt it necessary to reply to a thread that died over a year ago?

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by Hellmark

Any particular reason why you felt it necessary to reply to a thread that died over a year ago?

I blame the "similar threads" at the bottom of the screen -- those bad boys have no sense of time and it's easy to miss the OP date because it's gray-on-gray. I've nearly rezz'd threads that way.

[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by anamardoll

I blame the "similar threads" at the bottom of the screen -- those bad boys have no sense of time and it's easy to miss the OP date because it's gray-on-gray. I've nearly rezz'd threads that way.

Hmm, on my screen, the similar threads section shows the timestamp for the last post, in black.

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by Hellmark

Hmm, on my screen, the similar threads section shows the timestamp for the last post, in black.

Hmm, you're right. My eye was seduced by the thread title and I saw not the Last Post column. Live and learn, thank you.