Jailbreaking is now legal (among other things)

The DMCA was passed in 1998, so this is the fourth go-round for the Library. In the past, people have usually complained that DRM prevented them from making legitimate use of items like DVDs—format-shifting a copy to one's iPod, for instance, was forbidden. The Register of Copyrights (who is part of the Library of Congress) dutifully listened to these complaints and then did... very little. Previous exemptions could charitably be described as "parsimonious." After all, if you need a two-minute clip of a film, you could always get it from a VHS tape or by taping a TV screen. Right?

The Librarian and the Register, cautious folks that they are, have moved slowly, but after more than a decade of the DMCA, they are increasingly willing to acknowledge its harms. That lead to this morning's ruling, which provides DRM circumvention exemptions for the following six classes of works:

    (1) Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances:
    (i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students; (ii) Documentary filmmaking; (iii) Noncommercial videos.

    (2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.

    (3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network.

    (4) Video games accessible on personal computers and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully obtained works, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing for, investigating, or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities, if:

    (i) The information derived from the security testing is used primarily to promote the security of the owner or operator of a computer, computer system, or computer network; and (ii) The information derived from the security testing is used or maintained in a manner that does not facilitate copyright infringement or a violation of applicable law.

    (5) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace; and

    (6) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.

More (including clarification of legal speak) At:
Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-big-in-drm-ruling-jailbreaks-are-fair-use.ars

HAHA FUCK YOU APPLE

Ok... But do you still lose your warranty?

Ok... But do you still lose your warranty?

yeah probably, they just can't slap you with a lawsuit for jailbreaking your iDevice now.  And if you're jailbreaking, you obviously are disregarding warranty concerns.

Hehehe sweet, bad for developers and stuff, but still

"oh excuse me while i test this $1600 program for....good faith"

How is jailbreaking on the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad done these days? Is it done by redistributing a modified iOS, or is it done by modifying your existing iOS software? I haven't jailbroken since iPhone OS 1, and even then I can't remember.

How is jailbreaking on the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad done these days? Is it done by redistributing a modified iOS, or is it done by modifying your existing iOS software? I haven't jailbroken since iPhone OS 1, and even then I can't remember.

You download the actual OS, and then modify it using a program.

OR

You download a pre-modified one.

OR

You run software that jailbreaks your iPod like magic. (Modifies it on the iPod itself.)

it's usually done via the first method, pretty much modding.

it's usually done via the first method, pretty much modding.

Now spirit is out thats not actually true, so many hur dur people can do it with one click now.