Jailbreaking & Unlocking iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad is Now Legal, But Still Voids Warranty
According to the latest exceptions from DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), it is completely legal to jailbreak iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, and so is the unlocking of iPhone. However, it is not such a great news as it first seems to be. This is because of several reasons. First of all, these exceptions are considered in every three years, so it is liable to change. Secondly, Apple still don’t offer warranty on a jailbroken device (so do it at your own risk). To better understand this point, you can take an example of any electronic product. You can open it and can tinker with its parts but that voids warranty, and any damage is on your hands.
So, these exemptions doesn’t change anything in the real world, but the fact that now Apple cannot sue you for jailbreaking or unlocking. That’s it for such a big news. Here are the excerpts (if you are interested) which affected the change:
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.
Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network.
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