Monday, July 26, 2010

Exemption Will Allow ‘Jailbreaking’ of iPhones - NYTimes.com

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The Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law, said on Monday that it was legal to bypass a phone’s controls on what software it will run to get “lawfully obtained” programs to work.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group, had asked for that exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow the so-called jailbreaking of iPhones and other devices.

Exemption Will Allow ‘Jailbreaking’ of iPhones - NYTimes.com

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