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Apple: iPhone Jailbreak hack violates the law

February 13, 2009 12:00 PM ET

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In the original EFF request (download PDF) for a DMCA exemption, Lohmann argued that "there is no copyrighted rationale for preventing iPhone owners from 'jailbreaking' their phones, enabling them to interoperate with applications lawfully obtained from a source of their own choosing."

For its part, Apple sees the EFF's moves as an attempt to tell it how to run its business. "EFF apparently desires to use the rulemaking process to alter Apple's business practices by negating DMCA protection for technologies that interfere with what the EFF seems to assume would be a more socially desirable business model that is more 'open,'" the company said.

"Its arguments really amount to an attack on Apple's business choices," said Apple.

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