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Wasn't it last year that the Library of Congress made cell phones an exemption? There was a big hullabaloo about jailbreaking being illegal up to that point.
by Zikes 11y ago
Wasn't it last year that the Library of Congress made cell phones an exemption? There was a big hullabaloo about jailbreaking being illegal up to that point.
- sp332 11y agoYes, and that's a temporary exemption that has to be renewed every three years. I think it runs out this year. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/jailbreaking-now-legal-under-dmca-for-smartphones-but-not-tablets/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/jailbreaking-now-...
- Zikes 11y agoAh, so it's been longer than I thought. Well, it'll be interesting to see what happens if jailbreakers get that rug pulled out from under them. It might drive a long-overdue reform of the DMCA.
- gcb0 11y agocoinciding with Motorola and others (well, htc broke...) quitting offers on "developer" models. make me think if the ill supported dev models were not just a way to try to corrupt that. "he can't jail break that one because it's not the Dev model. if they wanted to, they should have bought that one"