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#75 / July 27, 2010 / 1:09 min.

Jailbreaking the iPhone deemed legal under DMCA

The Library of Congress has determined that the "jailbreaking" of iPhones and other devices is legal. This is great news for the 60+ million iPhone users, many of whom resisted jailbreaking because they thought it voided their warranty. With this ruling, jailbreaking is indeed legal.
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- Read about it at the New York Times.

- This has been a heated issue for Apple who contended that "jailbreaking" violated their copyrights.

- The Library of Congress determined that a company cannot determine what software a user can run on a device.

- Users who avoided jailbreaking for fear of voiding their warranty need no longer do so.

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