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[wearymemory]

...Technologic.

In lieu of my dangerously sexy wordplay, have you heard about these legalized copyright circumvention exceptions? Among these actions legalized are:

1) Using short clips from DVDs that were lawfully made and acquired for educational, critical, or evaluative purposes.
2) Jailbreaking or enabling a device to execute lawfully obtained applications that are otherwise unable to run on that device.
3) Unlocking your phone so as to lawfully connect to another network.
4) Cracking, exploiting, or hacking video game software in order to inform the owner of security flaws, so that they may be properly dealt with.
5) Modifying technology that relies on dongles that have been deemed obsolete; and
6) modifying legally obtained e-book formats that prevent speech technology from reading those books aloud.

Of course, license agreements that restrict such actions (e.g. Apple not allowing users to jailbreak their device) are still upheld (so you shouldn't send your jailbroken device to Apple if you need it repaired).

Research it.

What are your thoughts?

[dandymcgee]

Haha, awesome.

[eatcomics]

meh jailbreaking was legal before I don't care what apples says, you own it, you may jailbreak it. Of course if another carrier refuses to give you service, they may do that