Apple lost its bid on criminalizing the act of “jailbreaking” today. “Jailbreaking” has long been known as the unauthorized tapping or hacking of a phone unit to install unrecognized applications until such hype became overrated by the emergence of socially productive interoperable systems.
This was also the reason why James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, listed “Jailbreaking” as one of the number of practices that do not infringe the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Mary Peters, the Register of Copyrights who approved the ruling, even added that customizing a phone unit to make it interoperable is of fair use and that Apple’s objections were only related to its own interests as a distributor of iPhone.
It was reported in the past that Apple’s argument was one of the reasons why Opera and Mozilla, at first, did not develop browsers for iPhone. That while Opera recently created the Opera Mini, Mozilla is still firm with its stand not to develop a system for iPhone.
With the act of “Jailbreaking” formalized as a legal practice, it is expected that more developers will be inspired to further improve users’ experience not only in iPhones but in other gadgets. Hopefully, Mozilla can also get on them since it is one of today’s most reliable open source operating systems.
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