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Apple Wants To Make Jailbreaking Worthy Of Jail Time, $2500 Fine

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has petitioned the Library of Congress to officially protect phone owners who bypass software restrictions on their phones—aka “jailbreaking.” Apple has just filed an objection, arguing that doing so would infringe on their copyright. If Apple gets its way,

would have the right to claim statutory damages of up to $2,500 “per act of circumvention.” People who jailbreak phones, might even be subject to criminal penalties of as long as five years, if they circumvented copyright for a financial gain.

The big question, of course, is who really owns your damned phone? Apple says that bypassing their software restrictions messes with the “chain of trust” they’ve set up and screws up their “ecosystem.” The EFF counters that if you apply Apple’s argument to another industry, it falls apart:

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Iphone 3.0 update previewed

APPLE PREVIEWED FORTHCOMING CHANGES to its mobile operating system yesterday and it appears that the Cupertino company has been listening to its developers and users.

Apple has added over 1000 new APIs to the software developer kit (SDK), most of which address shortcomings in previous releases, as well as over 100 new features which will appear at release time.

Here’s a brief run-down of the major new additions. You can watch the full 90-minute keynote here, but we wouldn’t recommend it (yawn).

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