From TheNextWeb:
Jailbreaking your phone is legal in the US, but not for other mobile devices
26TH OCTOBER 2012 by KEN YEUNG
The United States government has ruled that it’s perfectly legal for you to jailbreak your phone — and by jailbreak, we mean that it’s not going to violate any copyright laws. But don’t think that you’re going to be able to legally hack any of your other devices, because the US Copyright Office says that tablets are excluded from this ruling.
As reported by The Verge, the US Copyright Office issued rulings on exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) today and said that the “category of tablets is difficult to define” so rather than issue a blanket exemption, it declined to lump tablet devices in with phones.
Who can deny that copyright is arbitrary, and not a protection of any natural property rights?
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