Jailbreak is getting ill-legal ?

[Pod2G]

There are rumours from around 3 months that now there will be no jailbreak for any iOS device ? I reckon jailbreak is legal but it is said to be by iPhone Dev team that it won't be legal now and Evasion is the last tool. I saw on many sites.

Have a look : http://rodingo.com/evasion-said-to-be-last-untethered-jailbreak-tool-for-ios/817/ I'm worried!!!

[kdfederer ACE - Wizard]

It is not a rumor. As of January 26, it is ILLEGAL to unlock a phone without phone carrier's approval.
The U.S. Copyright Office and Library of Congress are no longer allowing phone unlocking as an exemption under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

[Max69 ACE - Wizard]

Jailbreaking an iPhone does not unlock it. It allows access to areas of the system and settings that you wouldn't normally have, but it doesn't unlock the phone.

I haven't seen anything overturning the 2010 ruling that made jailbreaking legal, but it does violate Apple's SLA and voids the warranty.

I personally haven't seen any benefit that would make me want to jailbreak my phone, but to each his own.

[ranron]

Technically the DMCA exception that made unlocking legal, also made jailbreaking legal; so now that unlocking is "illegal," so is jailbreaking.

That said, do you think anyone will really enforce this? And if they do, what is the punish? These things are not specified; in reality if anyone really were to enforce this, I'm sure the case would drag on and end up in the Supreme Court to be resolved.

[wingrider01 ACE - Geek]

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ranron wrote:

Technically the DMCA exception that made unlocking legal, also made jailbreaking legal; so now that unlocking is "illegal," so is jailbreaking.

That said, do you think anyone will really enforce this? And if they do, what is the punish? These things are not specified; in reality if anyone really were to enforce this, I'm sure the case would drag on and end up in the Supreme Court to be resolved.

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Unlocking a phone has never been illegal, unlocking and jail breaking are two totally different animals. The ruling states that unlocking a phone through any method other then the carrier is not permitted

As far as enforce - they take the money and run 3rd party unlockers have been warned - they are illegal. I know apple actively enforces their policies and now they have another weapon in their arsenal of battle toys to shut down those sites

[jane697]

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kdfederer wrote:
It is not a rumor. As of January 26, it is ILLEGAL to unlock a phone without phone carrier's approval.
The U.S. Copyright Office and Library of Congress are no longer allowing phone unlocking as an exemption under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

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Athough yes it is illegal to unlock a phone as of January 26, it applies ONLY to those phones purchased (on or) after that date--any phones purchased prior to that date are exempt from the ruling...at least that's what I've heard from reading about it.

As far as the other poster's comment about jailbreaking being illegal as a (in)direct result of unlocking now being illegal--for the most part jailbreaking is legal, except--and I say this based on what I've read elsewhere, so please feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken--for certain devices (I believe certain iPad models were mentioned).  iPhone jailbreaking is still legal (for now) but of course the usual caveats still apply...