Little did you know that if you were one of the people that jail broke your iPhone Apple wanted the right to sue you for doing so. This historical win for the EFF grants the right to the user of any smartphone to make use of the software as you see fit, including bypassing any protections put into place by the manufacturer. These were previously protected under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but are now firmly in the “fair-use” category. However this change does not protect the rights of the people or companies that write the jail broken software. To read the full article click the picture below.

 

Tags: EFF, iPhone, Jailbreakers, Smartphone

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 at 1:03 pm and is filed under In The News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.