jailbreak EFF Pleads to Make Jailbreaking Legal For all Devices

[ThePitt]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked the US Copyright Office to make legal the jailbreaking of all consumer electronic devices, including smartphones, tablets, and video game consoles. The proposal aims to remove jailbreaking, or gaining root access to a device, from being prohibited by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The EFF has also asked that electronic companies not oppose the jailbreaking of their products.

In July of 2010 the EFF won its first landmark case for this cause when the US government passed a law making the jailbreaking of Apple?s iPhone and iOS platform legal. Now, the EFF wants to make jailbreaking legal on all devices.

The EFF in an official statement:

?We were thrilled that EFF won important exemptions to the DMCA in the last rulemaking,? said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann. ?But technology has evolved over the last three years, and so it?s important to expand these exemptions to cover the real-world uses of smartphones, tablets, video game consoles, DVDs, and video downloads.?

If the US were to protect the jailbreaking of all consumer electronic devices, the rest of the industry would be subject to the same ruling that Apple already adheres to. It?s legal to jailbreak the iPhone, but Apple still has the right to combat jailbreakers (as it continues to do in iOS 5) with its company actions and warranty policies.

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