{"id":11636,"date":"2010-07-27T18:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2367"},"modified":"2010-07-27T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:52:48","slug":"applesphere-byebye-us-library-of-congress-says-it-is-legal-to-jailbreak-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/applesphere-byebye-us-library-of-congress-says-it-is-legal-to-jailbreak-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Applesphere, byebye: US Library of Congress says it is legal to jailbreak phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tApple likes to maintain tight control over what programs can appear on the iPhone \u2014 a task that just became a little bit harder.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law, said on Monday that it was legal to bypass a phone\u2019s controls on what software it will run to get &#8220;lawfully obtained&#8221; programs to work.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group, had asked for that exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow the so-called jailbreaking of iPhones and other devices.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8220;This is a really important victory for iPhone owners,&#8221; said Corynne McSherry, a senior staff lawyer with the foundation. &#8220;People who want to tinker with their phones and move outside of the Applesphere now have the ability to legally do that.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/27\/technology\/27iphone.html?_r=1&#038;emc=eta1\">Link<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/moboid.com\/\">moboid<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple likes to maintain tight control over what programs can appear on the iPhone \u2014 a task that just became a little bit harder. The Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law, said on Monday that it was legal to bypass a phone\u2019s controls on what software &#8230; <a title=\"Applesphere, byebye: US Library of Congress says it is legal to jailbreak phones\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/applesphere-byebye-us-library-of-congress-says-it-is-legal-to-jailbreak-phones\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}