Apple was explicitly campaigning against this, it's addressed in the article: > The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued that jailbreaking one's iPhone should

Apple was explicitly campaigning against this, it's addressed in the article: > The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued that jailbreaking one's iPhone should be allowed, even though it required one to bypass some DRM and then to reuse a small bit of Apple's copyright firmware code. Apple showed up at the hearings to say, in numerous ways, that the idea was terrible, ridiculous, and illegal. In large part, that was because the limit on jailbreaking was needed to preserve Apple's controlled ecosystem, which the company said was of great value to consumers. ---- Also, a previous article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/apple-sides-with-mpaa-riaa-against-drm-circumvention.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/apple-sides-with-m...