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Apple Accused Of Crackdown On Jailbreaking

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 02 2020, @06:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the popcorn-time dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Apple is pushing ahead with a lawsuit against Corellium, in what is being labelled as a move to end jailbreaking.

The tech giant began its legal battle in August, claiming the firm profits from "perfect replicas" of iOS.

Apple has now amended its lawsuit, alleging copyright infringement.

Corellium's CEO responded in an open letter, insisting developers and jailbreakers should be "concerned" by the move.

[...] Corellium's chief executive, Amanda Gorton, issued a statement on Sunday in response to Apple's latest claims of copyright infringement.

She criticised Apple's targeting of the jailbreaking community, and suggested the company has failed to acknowledge that it has directly benefited from users of its platform in the past.

"Apple is asserting that anyone who provides a tool that allows other people to jailbreak, and anyone who assists in creating such a tool, is violating the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)," said Ms Gorton.

"They have directly benefited from the jailbreak community in a number of ways. Many of the features of iOS originally appeared as jailbreak tweaks and were copied by Apple."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03 2020, @05:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03 2020, @05:58AM (#938983)

    Why are you jailbreaking it if you want a device that work as advertised? Why are you complaining it might break if you do something unsupported to it? Why even jump through all the loops to jailbreak it if you don't want the risk?