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#1 kindrudekid

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Posted 27 January 2012 - 07:45 PM

Back in July 2010, the United Stated government approved few exemptions in a federal law which made jailbreaking/rooting of electronic devices(iPhones and Android devices) legal. Well this could soon become null and void, making jailbreaking/rooting illegal again.



The court ruling stated that every three years, the exemptions have to be renewed considering they don’t infringe any copyrighted material.

Every three years, the Library of Congress authorizes such exemptions to ensure that existing law does not prevent non-infringing use of copyrighted material.


The three year period is due to expire and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is looking to get the exemptions renewed. In order to do so, they have filed a petition which aims at government to declare jailbreaking/rooting legal once again. In addition to that, EFF is also asking for a change in the original ruling to include tablet devices.
To help breathe jailbreaking/rooting for three more years, just head over to EFF’s

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and send your comments to U.S. copyright office. Please note that all comments must be received by 10th February 5PM Eastern Time.


Happy Jailbreaking and Rooting!

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#2 curse3800

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Posted 27 January 2012 - 07:55 PM

good find, the real joy of smartphones is being able to hack/mod them to your liking, def can lose that

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 07:16 AM

I'll post my letter once I am finished. Feel free to use it either as a source of information/ideas when writing your own. Please however do not copy/paste large segments as this will just cause them to pay less attention as it becomes a swarm of too similar of messages.

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 08:39 AM

Here ya go

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 03:19 PM

Nice write up

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