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At first I wondered if modchips would now be legal, and CrunchGear and others are just focusing on jailbreaking iPhones because it's topical to their audience.
by matthew-wegner 16y ago
At first I wondered if modchips would now be legal, and CrunchGear and others are just focusing on jailbreaking iPhones because it's topical to their audience.
But, no, the wording really is zeroed in on handsets:
Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.
In fact, it sounds like it's legal to jailbreak an iPhone but not an iPod touch...
- flatulent1 16y ago"In fact, it sounds like it's legal to jailbreak an iPhone but not an iPod touch..." Perhaps one could extend the scope of this to the iPod touch by considering the case of one with a bluetooth headset and VoIP software running. The iPod touch may be much less well known as a telephone, but like the iPhone it is a product with many possible uses. Talk on it and have someone try to prove it isn't a phone.
- Groxx 16y agoBe shown that there isn't a SIM card in it, and try to explain the difference to a judge / jury.
- yumraj 16y agoVerizon and Sprint phones don't have a SIM card and they're still phones, ask anyone ;).
- jrockway 16y agoThe Copyright Office's exemption guidelines should be read as a list of things that would get the law struck down in court, and hence the government isn't going to prosecute. I doubt a prosecutor is going to risk the entire DMCA on "wifi telephone" versus "AT&T telephone".