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appleinsider.com - 2/13/2009
Apple and EFF argue over iPhone jailbreaking
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed requests with the US Copyright Office to exempt activities from legal threats under the DMCA, one of which attacks Apple's secured software business model on the iPhone.
eff.org - 2/13/2009
Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
— eff.org — Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the... Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking . This marks the first formal public statement by Apple about its ... (more) Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal

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The Experiment | None
appcubby.com - 2/10/2009
The Experiment | None
— appcubby.com — This post may make a bit more sense in light of my two prior posts: " Financial... Realities of the App Store " and " App Store Pricing (It's not a free market!) " With App Store shoppers seemingly hesitant to risk $5+ on a new app, I decided to do a ... (more) The Experiment | None

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Most iPhone applications gathering dust
news.cnet.com - 2/20/2009
Most iPhone applications gathering dust
— news.cnet.com — iPhone users have very short attention spans. Just 30 percent of people who buy an iPhone application... actually use it the day after it was purchased, according to Pinch Media , which analyzed over 30 million downloads from Apple's App Store. And ... (more) Most iPhone applications gathering dust

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Digital Daily:  iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal. No It’s Not. Who Cares?

Cult of Mac:  Apple Calls Jailbreaking iPhones a Crime

The Apple Core:  Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers

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iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal. No It’s Not. Who Cares?
Digital Daily — ... And they can go round and round and round. But their sparring and bloviating will ultimately be meaningless. Because if Apple’s history with iPhone jailbreaks (see stories below) has taught us anything, it’s that they’re essentially unstoppable. ...

Apple Calls Jailbreaking iPhones a Crime
Cult of Mac — ... If you’re interested in a detailed rehash of the legal brickbats flying between Apple and EFF over the matter, AppleInsider has a very good discussion of the arguments raised by both sides. ...

Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers
The Apple Core — ... behind the EFF and the iPhone jailbreaking community. A new filling with the US Copyright Office seeks an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) related to iPhone jailbreaking. The exemption would strip Apple of its ability to charge groups with DMCA violations for circumventing the iPhone’s security by modifying Apple’s internal iPhone software, as long as they did it under the cover of “enabling interoperability,” according to the exemption wording proposed by the EFF. More information on Apple’s quest to ...

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