http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2234110/eff-pushes-jailbreak-rights By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco vnunet.com 16 Jan 2009 Americans hoping to hack their mobile handsets may soon have help in the form of legal shelter. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pressing lawmakers to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to provide protections for users who wish to change built-in carrier settings or software locks on their phones. Commonly known as "jailbreaking," the process involves removing hardware or software protections that limit the handset to a single carrier or software service. The practice received widespread attention when thousands of iPhone users performed the procedure on their handsets. The EFF is hoping to add an exemption to the DMCA which would protect users who perform the procedure on their handsets. Currently, the act forbids users from manipulating or otherwise circumventing components that protect copyright. [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Fri Jan 16 2009 - 07:48:29 PST
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