Today a special news came from the U.S. Copyright Office – after a review of the federal copyright law that takes place every three years, jailbreaking your iPhone (or any other electronic device) for the purpose of running legal acquired/developed applications is now legal. Yes, you read it correctly, hacking your iPhone to run Cydia and non App store applications is now legal. Of course Apple doesn’t like it, but it seems at this point there is nothing that they can do (apart from lobbying the Congress and hope in a future re-consideration of the law). The full text of today’s decision can be found here. Circumventing copy protection for DVD movies is also now allowed providing the movies are only used for documentary purposes but weirdly enough, Blu-ray movies are not covered.
With today’s change, I can foresee an explosion of companies offering to jailbreak your iPhone for a fee, now that the process is legal.
