Millennium Copyright Act) to protect copyright in the digital age, the
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) asked what practices jailbreaking
of the iPhone is permitted as an exception. Today we learn that
Mozilla and Skype share this position.
Last Monday, in response to this demand, Apple has provided on its
official positions facing jailbreaking "jailbreak techniques widely
generalized use of unauthorized modification of bootloader and the OS
(...) which leads to a violation of Skype, placed on these programs,
"explained the firm's lawyers from Cupertino. This is not a surprise
since Apple developers have repeatedly filled the gaps in the system
used by third party programmers.
More precisely, if this exception proposed by the EFF was accepted
into the DMCA, Apple would still be able to take legal action against
developers modifying the system's internal phone book. However, the
practices of jailbreaking, designed to break the protection measures
implemented by Apple, would facilitate the work of hackers.
John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, says his side is the side of
the EFF."This is not to criticize Apple," he says, "but it is a matter
of principle. The user should have the choice, which should not lead
to repercussions. The Mozilla Foundation has never proposed Fennec,
its mobile version of Firefox under development for the iPhone but
Apple has stated that software competing with those embedded by
default on the phone are not accepted within the App Store. Anyway
John Lilly says that even if the exception of the jailbreak were to be
accepted by the regulators of the DMCA, Mozilla probably does not
venture on the side of the iPhone.
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