If you own an ipod touch or iphone you have probably tried or have talked about jailbreaking with someone. And one of the most asked question about jailbreaking is, whether jailbreaking is legal or not. Luckily for all of you with a jailbroken ipod/iphone, jailbreaking is legal. In July, the Library of Congress announced that it had made the controversial practice of “jailbreaking” your iPhone — or any other cell phone — legal. Before this jailbreaking was technically illegal but no one has been sued for this. After the Library of Congress announced that jailbreaking is perfectly legal, apple fought hard against the legalization, arguing that jailbreaking was a form of copyright violation. The FCC disagreed, saying that jailbreaking merely enhanced the inter-operability of the phone, and was thus legitimate under fair-use rules. Now if you Jailbreak your ipod/iphone its ok the only downfall is that you will lose your warranty, even with that, It is estimated that more than a million iphone users have jailbroken there device. Some people are saying that it’s still unfair that you lose your warranty since you bought the device and you should be able to do whatever you want with it. On the other hand some say this is perfectly acceptable since you are technically changing the interface and just about everything on the device. Some people even use the jailbreaking to use a different cell phone company with the iphone like T-mobile, Verizon, ect. As for me I disagree, I believe you should still have your warranty even if you break your device because in the end you still purchased the device from apple and still paid and most likely are paying for many of the things on your device. So taking away the warranty is like Apples way of fighting back at the legalization of Jailbreaking.
If your someone who has been wanting to jailbreak there device but has heard some rumors of why not to. You most likely have heard one of the five most common myths about jailbreaking which are,
Myth1- Jailbreaking will brick your device - First off to have a device bricked means that it freezes and is unusable. Fortunate for you it is impossible for your device to get bricked.
Myth2- Jailbreaking is Illegal. - This is 10000000% FALSE! Jailbreaking is perfectly legal.
Myth3- Once you have jailbroken your device you can never go back. - False again, if you ever jailbreak your device and later you decide you don’t want it jailbroken just put your ipod into DFU mode and restore it. This will always work.
Myth4- There is no point to Jailbreak your device, there are no benefits. - There are so many things you can do with your jailbroken device that you can't do with a non jailbroken device. From fully customizable themes, to SBSettings, to using other phone providers such as T-mobile, ect.
Myth5- Jailbreaking a device takes too much time and money. - Now a day's Jailbreaking takes less than 2 min, and all programs for jailbreaking your device are free. There are even hundreds of videos on youtube showing how to jailbreak your device.
So if you get a chance to Jailbreak your device take it its quick, very usfull, and fun.
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