No, it's not. They haven't yet gone after people who jailbreak their phones. That doesn't mean they won't.
And btw, they have gone after sites that talk about how to jailbreak the iPhone. Copyright was just an excuse.
And btw, they have gone after sites that talk about how to jailbreak the iPhone. Copyright was just an excuse.
I like how you can predict the future... How else do you know what a company is going to do, before the company does it?
If Apple honestly believed they would never go after someone for jailbreaking, then they wouldn't waste their time laying the legal groundwork to do so.
Jailbreaking per se is not illegal. Violating copyright to do so is. The EFF filed for a DMCA exemption which would allow violating the DMCA for the purposes of jailbreaking, primarily of iPhones. The EFF is the one attempting to lay legal groundwork by changing the law -- what they propose is currently illegal. Apple's filing is only a response to the EFF's comments.
On what grounds would they aside from copyright?
Copyright was just an excuse.
I don't understand. Are you saying they have not had legitimate copyright claims, or that they have but that they are somehow irrelevant?