You Bought It. You Own It. - Well, not under the DMCA in the states.
Currently, the DMCA only allows 'Jailbreaking' on 'phones', but now we have Tablets, and Video Gaming, and EFF and 'Bunnie' is now fighting to have your personal rights extended to those devices
In less then week, comments will be closed, and the USA govt. will start reviewing all the facts and figures and submits and decide if they will RENEW the right to Jailbreak 'phones', or maybe in fact totally REMOVE your personal rights, or if we lucky extend it to support the new-age of Tablets running Android, not just phones, and if we really really luckly even 'Video Gaming Consoles'.
To try to make that happen the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has been pushing hard, and now they have even got 'Bunnie Huang' in on the big fight to make 'Jailbreaking to be NOT a Crime', and he has produced a nice letter, to make it easy to sign and show the 'Copyright Office' that you wish to have the right to Jailbreak, the devices you BOUGHT and OWN.
Dear Ms. Pallante,
Whether it's patching a security vulnerability or homebrewing video games and apps, people who own smart phones, tablets, and video game systems are finding inventive ways to use and improve their devices. Often users need to gain full administrative access, through a process known as "jailbreaking," to innovate and take advantage of the device's full potential.
But right now, jailbreaking a device can lead to legal threats. That's a vulnerability in the law: we need you to create a "patch" so users who jailbreak devices won't be at legal risk.
Three years ago, the Copyright Office agreed to create an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so that folks could jailbreak their smartphones. But that exemption is about to expire. We need you to renew that exemption and expand it to cover jailbreaking gadgets with similar computation potential. These are all siblings to the PC, yet unlocking their potential as versatile and powerful computers is burdened with legal murkiness.
We need these exemptions to conduct security research on devices to help safeguard everyday users from security threats. Furthermore, users of these products benefit from the flexibility to choose their own operating systems and run independently developed software. We need the law to catch up with how people are using technology.
Jailbreaking is helping to make technology better, more secure, and more flexible. Please defend the rights of users.
Thanks for enabling us to keep technology innovative, secure, and focused on the users.
bunnie Huang
@bunniestudios
If you remember, 'Bunnie' was the first one to 'Hack the Xbox' and even wrote a book on the subject, which now would be 'Crime' in the states, for the 'research' he was doing back then in the Xbox1 days.
