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EFF petitions to extend legal iPhone jailbreaking

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 27th, 2012)

In 2010, the Copyright Office said jailbreaking a handset did not violate the DMCA and the jailbreak community breathed a sigh of relief. What many people didn't realize was that the exemption covering jailbreaking will expire later this year. When it expires, companies can go after jailbreak ...

Apple reportedly cracking down on App Store pirates

by Steven Sande (Jan 4th, 2012)

According to a post this morning on Ars Technica, Apple is taking legal measures to make it more difficult for pirated copies of App Store apps to make their way to the hands of iOS device owners. The company is sending takedown notices to Apptrackr, a site that commonly directs users to ...

Library of Congress rules in favor of jailbreaking

by Erica Sadun (Jul 26th, 2010)

Today, the Library of Congress has ruled in favor of both jailbreaking and unlocking phones according to an Associated Press Statement published on the New York Times. The Library of Congress statement can be found here if you'd prefer to read the original. The Washington Post has also picked up ...

Psystar, Apple file motions for summary judgment

by Lauren Hirsch (Oct 14th, 2009)

Apple and Psystar have been embroiled in litigation for quite a while now. At the core of the dispute: Psystar modifies Apple's operating system software so that it can run on its clone machines. It then sells its computers with Mac OS installed to, well, anybody who wants one. As you can imagine, ...

Psystar bankruptcy dismissed, stays against Apple blocked

by Steven Sande (Aug 11th, 2009)

Over the weekend, The Mac Observer posted a detailed analysis of the latest chapter in the Psystar saga. It's taken me a few days to come down from vacation and try to wrap my brain around the legalese, but here's the condensed version of what happened. Psystar was granted its motion to dismiss its ...

Apple says jailbreaking is illegal

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2009)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted the news that Apple has filed comments with the US Copyright Office stating that the act of jailbreaking your iPhone is a copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, and therefore illegal. The EFF says that Apple is claiming that jailbreak apps still ...

Apple piles on Psystar, wins trademark suit

by Robert Palmer (Dec 2nd, 2008)

In yet another new facet to this already-draining legal battle surrounding Psystar's sales of non-Apple hardware that runs Mac OS X, Apple has amended its original suit after it discovered "additional information," according to Computerworld. Apple now claims Psystar circumvented Apple's copyright ...

Is it legal to unlock your iPhone?

by Mike Schramm (Aug 26th, 2007)

Just in case you missed it, Engadget did a nice little analysis of whether it's legal to unlock your iPhone or not-- a more and more pertinent question as we get closer and closer to having unlocking solutions become available. In short, it is legal... mostly. The main questions of legality lie ...

OSX86 Forums Closed by DMCA Violation Notice

by Damien Barrett (Feb 17th, 2006)

For those people attempting to get Mac OS X 10.4.x for Intel installed on machines other than Macs, the best place to get that information was the forums at the OSX86 Project. The forums are now closed indefinitely because the project was served with a DMCA violation notice and the project ...

iPod as a catalyst for DMCA reform?

by David Chartier (Jan 24th, 2006)

CNET News has a really interesting perspective piece highlighting the video iPod's potential for being a catalyst for DMCA reform, specifically: the (outlandish) portion that makes it illegal to sell or distribute DVD-ripping software. The idea behind the article is that, until now, these measures ...

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