Jailtime For Jailbreaking 281
An anonymous reader writes "Remember how the Librarian of Congress announced that jailbreaking your phone was legal and not a violation of the DMCA? Yeah, well, tell that to Mohamad Majed, who has already spent over a year in jail and has now been pressured into pleading guilty to criminal DMCA violations for jailbreaking phones for use on other carriers."
Re:No ex post facto laws (Score:3, Funny)
Yea, except the case was brought after the exemption, since this is about jailbreaking to port to a different carrier, not jailbreaking to run other software. The latter exemption wasn't until this year, but the former was back in 2006. However, the shitty slashdot summary leaves out a key point, this idiot pleaded guilty, so you can't really blame anyone but him.
Jailbreak? (Score:4, Funny)
as Steven Colbert would say.....
Jailbreak.... or...... Freedom Patch?
Breaking something out of jail is known to be bad... setting something free is much better....