The US Library of Congress has rather brought some good news for all the jailbreakers and unlockers. Yes, they made changes in some copyright laws (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA) to legally allow jailbreaking and unlocking of smartphones.
This means now the manufacturers (OEMs) will find it hard to sue you if you try making changes in smartphones like jailbreak or root phones including iPhone, Android, webOS devices to download and install 3rd party applications that have not been approved by authorities like Apple or others or for that matter using an operator other than assigned with a phone.
Here is news excerpt from AP:
WASHINGTON — Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven’t been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday.
The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorized uses. The Library of Congress, which oversees the Copyright Office, reviews and authorizes exemptions every three years to ensure that the law does not prevent certain non-infringing uses of copyright-protected material.
Read full press here
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Good to know that the government is defending the right of consumers to fair use of the product they bought. This is good for consumers that want to use 3rd party apps for their iPhones.