Fred von Lohmann, a legal representative from the EFF, says that recent comments filed by Apple (PDF) with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking state that iPhone and iPod jailbreaking constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation:
Bummer. To quote:
Apple's iPhone, now the best-selling cellular phone in the U.S., has been designed with restrictions that prevent owners from running applications obtained from sources other than Apple's own iTunes App Store. "Jailbreaking" is the term used for removing these restrictions, thereby liberating your phone from Apple's software "jail.&q
