Apple wants to make jailbreaking ipod/iphone worthy of jail time - GoFuckYourself.com

fris · 02-19-2009, 07:19 AM

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has petitioned the Library of Congress to officially protect phone owners who bypass software restrictions on their phones?aka "jailbreaking." Apple has just filed an objection, arguing that doing so would infringe on their copyright.

If Apple gets its way, it would have the right to claim statutory damages of up to $2,500 "per act of circumvention." People who jailbreak phones, might even be subject to criminal penalties of as long as five years, if they circumvented copyright for a financial gain.

http://consumerist.com/5153597/apple...time-2500-fine

GatorB · 02-19-2009, 07:26 AM

Gee and you wonder why I despise Apple products? Steve Jobs will never learn. Hell he's even against a universal charger for all cell phones the ONLY company against it. figures.

Machete_ · 02-19-2009, 07:27 AM

this guy lol'ed

u-Bob · 02-19-2009, 07:30 AM

Apple = bunch of fascists.

fris · 02-19-2009, 07:49 AM

u-bob can you hit me up, thx

munki · 02-19-2009, 07:58 AM

That's nuts...

seeandsee · 02-19-2009, 08:00 AM

APPLE burn in fucking hell

MakingItPay · 02-19-2009, 08:21 AM

But when an Iphone gets stolen, they allow the thief to use it to sign right up with the stolen phone! Bastards! If I didn't love this phone so much I would...Okay...I'm not giving it up, but Apple is a bunch of jerks!

HorseShit · 02-19-2009, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ebus_dk

this guy lol'ed

he's a cool kid

Iron Fist · 02-19-2009, 08:35 AM

No Apple fanbois in the thread today? GASP!

Babaganoosh · 02-19-2009, 08:48 AM

Fuck Apple. My Zune and Blackberry keep me safe.

fris · 02-19-2009, 08:54 AM

I love my ipod touch, and yes its jailbroken.

Its a good piece of hardware, I won't knock that, but this is outragous

minddust · 02-19-2009, 08:54 AM

fuck Apple.

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u-Bob · 02-19-2009, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by fris

I love my ipod touch, and yes its jailbroken.

Its a good piece of hardware, I won't knock that, but this is outragous

same here, love my ipod touch but HATE Apple.

scuba steve · 02-19-2009, 09:05 AM

haha besides the ridiculousness of apple aren't the jails full enough anyway? do we really need to fill them with more expensive non-deserving inmates?

02-19-2009, 09:20 AM

Ya know, it is their product, they own it, if they don't want people to use it how it's not meant to be used, it's their choice...

tranza · 02-19-2009, 09:43 AM

Brad · 02-19-2009, 09:45 AM

Pretty stupid to penalize people that have already shelled out money for your products and probably will again in the future. that said, Apple has a right to try top protect their interest. Everyone else does in the tech industry.

Someone mentioned the cellphone charger. Guess what, they are way late to the game and want to make some money like all the other players have been making for years. Can you blame them?

$5 submissions · 02-19-2009, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Killswitch

Ya know, it is their product, they own it, if they don't want people to use it how it's not meant to be used, it's their choice...

Exactly. And if the market doesn't like it, an alternative can always pop up and eat Apple's lunch.

Dvae · 02-19-2009, 07:20 PM

The same people whining about Apple are the same people who cry about tube sites and other such sites showing their content they spent their hard earned money to produce. Oh the hypocrisy!

d-null · 02-19-2009, 07:25 PM

EFF is such an important organization

all of us that can afford to should go to http://www.eff.org/ and donate a little to their important causes

D Ghost · 02-19-2009, 07:26 PM

Apple is lame....

02-19-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Exactly. And if the market doesn't like it, an alternative can always pop up and eat Apple's lunch.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dvae

The same people whining about Apple are the same people who cry about tube sites and other such sites showing their content they spent their hard earned money to produce. Oh the hypocrisy!

Exactly.

KillerK · 02-19-2009, 11:10 PM

There is nothing wrong with them suing people who are profiting off jailbreaking the thing.

mynameisjim · 02-19-2009, 11:20 PM

It's funny how people see Microsoft as the big evil corporation and Apple as this hippie type co-op but in fact, Apple has always been very evil from a corporate standpoint. They stole the mouse interface out from under Xerox and have always fiercely opposed any sharing of their technology or products.

I always tell my friends who are Apple fanboys that if Apple had it's way, the internet would be 10 years behind what it is now. The fact that the PC was open architecture is what as allowed the internet to blow up so fast.

DaddyHalbucks · 02-19-2009, 11:59 PM

Apple got theirs when the world bypassed them by making the PC the de facto standard.

Looks like they still have the same mentality.

Barefootsies · 02-20-2009, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by fris

Apple wants to make jailbreaking ipod/iphone worthy of jail time

Yeah. Just what I wanna see $40k+ a year of tax dollars wasted on. Housing some punk ass kid in jail because of too much free time, e-penis, and some fucking ipod/itouch/iphone.

CarlosTheGaucho · 02-20-2009, 01:08 AM

That'll only be a competitive advantage for their competitors.

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