The week the Copyright office made an announcement to address the legality of cellular telephone jailbreaking. This is of course the practice of modifying the software that was preinstalled on the device and not intended to be changed.
The simplest way to explain the ruling is that jailbreaking your mobile device is no longer violating a controversial federal copyright law called titled the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA. Bypassing a manufacturer's protection mechanisms and thus allowing "handsets to execute software applications" is now permitted.
Now in no manner does this mean that apple has to support or allow jailbreaking because it is still against Software license agreement but now to do anything about it the company would have to personally sue you and no longer has the legal ability to get an injunction to prevent there devices from being jailbroken.
This recent decision turns Apple’s defense which was a like having its own personal army at its disposal into a couple of guys messing around with slingshots. Poorly even. Now if Apple wants to battle this in court they would have to prove why the copyright office's new law which is part of the Library of Congress is wrong.
-TwisT
