Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal 610
rmav writes "Apple has finally made a statement about jail-breaking. They try to sell the idea that it is a copyright infringement and DMCA violation. This, despite the fact (as the linked article states) that courts have ruled that copying software while reverse engineering is a fair use when done for purposes of fostering interoperability with independently created software. I cannot help but think that the recent flood of iPhone cracked applications is responsible for this. Before that, Apple was quietly ignoring the jailbreak scene. Now, I suppose that in the future we may only install extra applications on our iPhones as ad hoc installs using the SDK, and if we want turn-by-turn directions, tethering, and the like, we have to compile these apps by ourselves? Maybe we should go and download the cydia source code and see what we can do with it."
Hehehe (Score:5, Funny)
One need only transpose Apple's arguments to the world of automobiles to recognize their absurdity. Sure, GM might tell us that, for our own safety, all servicing should be done by an authorized GM dealer using only genuine GM parts. Toyota might say that swapping your engine could reduce the reliability of your car. And Mazda could say that those who throw a supercharger on their Miatas frequently exceed the legal speed limit.
Duh (Score:3, Funny)
What next, Apple claims that water is wet?
Re:Apple's reality-distortion field (Score:5, Funny)
then just shoot them. Don't even give it a second thought.
Then continue your study of the internal workings of the iPhone from pound-me-in-the-ass prison ;)
Mac World (Score:4, Funny)
I've always been a PC at heart.
Not like the rest, the others. Everyone around me. I was at odds with my society and knew it early since birth. Unlike them, I did not "Think Different!"--the mantra of the Macs around me, the phrase on all the billboards in the city that served as a reminder to its citizenry. Sameness pervaded the essence of my being and no amount of self-conditioning I did could change that. Eventually, I gave up and isolated myself emotionally from society.
I gaze at the faces going by, the white earphones contrasting their black turtlenecks, connecting their ears to their pockets, their blank faces engrossed in hip Indie rock music and various garage bands. I envied them for their perfection against my flaws and my compulsive nature to expand, to burden my life with troubles instead of remaining, like them, simple and easy to deal with. The grandest of virtues, simplicity... the philosophy by our loyal benefactor Steve Jobs, who descended from the heavens, creating the Earth, the iron, the wind and the rain. Steve Jobs, who defined the parameters of existence, the one who set about the patterns of reality, the constants, the variables. He who made gravity, electromagnetic energy, and shaped atomic structures and brought forth motion. From these things, he crafted the elements, processed them, refined them, and from these things engineered Apple products through the purity of his mind. Each Apple product was individually crafted by his own hands with the programming code used to run each device having being compiled in his brain and uploaded to each device telepathically, breathing life and perfection into each and every unit.
Except, it seems, for me, for I was not among the many. I was a PC. They were Macs. I've always been a cold, stiff person. I got by, disguising myself by keeping my non-Ipod music player safely out of sight, which I use because of my depraved nature demanding more functionality than the simple and easy-to-use Ipods have to offer... In the safety of my own home, behind locked doors, I ran a Forbidden, a contraband computer from more depraved, earlier days that was not given the love and blessing of being birthed by Steve Jobs. I dual booted, out of the great sin of curiosity-- curiosity, a shameful value of a PC, as curiosity has no place where simplicity matters most--using two of the great unutterable blasphemies-- something called "Windows Vista" and something else called "Linux." Although, as I mentioned before, although my tendency to be a PC and towards conformity has always been inherent to me, I was truly transformed when I found these old things in a hidden cache of computer parts predating The Purging. Perhaps the greatest sin of all, the single evil that, if discovered, would damn me forever, was the fact that my mouse had more than one button.
As I walked on among the Macs on the streets, passing the Starbuckses as I went along, I wondered how it all came to this. I glanced at The Holy Marks on the foreheads as the people wandered down the streets, the Bitten Apple tattooed on all our of us at birth, and wondered if, perhaps, there could be something more to life. But again, this was a PC's thought, and not, like everyone elses', a Mac's. We were to hold ourselves to the philosophy of Steve Jobs--so as his products were designed for idiots, so too were we to be idiots. But I was not a Mac--I was not an idiot. I was simply too complicated to be a worthwhile person.
Nature called. I found a nearby public iPoo--squeaky clean and sparkly white, things weren't all bad--and let myself go, expelling the waste that had accumulated inside me. After relieving myself and committing the overly-complicated and thus illegal act of wiping my ass (I did not flush as iPoos, designed to be idiot-proof, did not flush) I left and once again wandered the streets aimlessly, hoping to find some meaning in a world where I simply did not belong, a world where if my true nature was discovered, I would be endlessly persecuted by smug, self-righteous sons of bitches.
A simpler solution (Score:4, Funny)
you can just not buy apple, and they can shove their locked-in product up their butt, until they get their lesson.
New Apple ad... (Score:5, Funny)
"Want to get sued? There's an app for that."
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Toro }B^>
Re:Apple's reality-distortion field (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, Fine,
Um, Guys, It's time to start the iPhone linux distro.
I suggest we call it "Screw you apple" but I'm willing to be voted down on the name.
The logo on the other hand WILL be an apple with a giant screw completely through it on a jaunty angle.
Meet you at sourceforge.
Re:Someone call the wambulance (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hehehe (Score:3, Funny)
That's because car analogies are simply more attractive and effective than other types of analogy. In that sense, you can think of a car analogy as a Porsche 911 Carrera and all other types of analogy as a 1973 AMC Gremlin.
No More Cowbell (Score:5, Funny)
Look, it's very simple.
Saying that jail-breaking an iPhone is a violation of the DMCA, is the same thing as claiming that if I own a Blue Oyster Cult mp3, and edit the file to add even MORE COWBELL, I would be committing a DMCA violation.
Re:Someone call the wambulance (Score:2, Funny)
No I'm sorry, the answer we were looking for is Apple.
Re:Someone call the wambulance (Score:2, Funny)
I think that is a good point. Call me naive but I am a firm believer that the market should regulate software vendors like apple. Of course that assumes that the purchasers of software licenses READ the license agreement. There are plenty of novel alternatives to Apple, always have been.
Certainly a good observation. About you being naive I mean. Looking back at the past 10 years, how many years have you used MS software? The same applies to them. And don't tell me that five or ten years ago Linux was not a real alternative. It wasn't, but excuses like that don't count.
Re:Someone call the wambulance (Score:1, Funny)
I know I am! Can I pay an extra 50 cents per gallon and watch CIA interrogations?
Re:Apple's reality-distortion field (Score:5, Funny)
Yes it is...
Microsoft uses both of them to make people feel pain
you're referring to Declaration of Acquiescence? (Score:4, Funny)
It's a good thing the founding fathers didn't agree with this line of thinking, or we'd all be having tea and cookies at 3pm, and paying a hell of a tax on it.
... social protest - they do mention inalienable rights though. Maybe you're referring to the Declaration of Acquiescence?
It takes guts to live outside a corrupt system. I did it for a while, now I am just Joe Taxpayer. I do respect the LW though for LIVING his principles, not just yakking about them.
Last time I read the Declaration of Independence, I didn't recall seeing anything called retarded
Re:Apple's reality-distortion field (Score:1, Funny)
Um, Guys, It's time to start the iPhone linux distro.
I suggest we call it "Screw you apple" but I'm willing to be voted down on the name.
"Sosumi" would be an even more apt name.