Should Jailbreaking Your Phone Be Legal?

[pecrafter]

Do you guys think that jailbreaking should be legal or illegal? if you don't know what a jailbreak is it is basically a way to change your operating system on your ipone/ipod/ipad. it allows you access to a 3rd party appstore (called cydia) which you can't normally use because the apps aren't "signed" by apple. there are some apps such as display recorder or iFile that are extremely handy and there are some others that could be used for piracy etc. cydia also allows you to get certain "tweaks" for your iDevice aswell such as the harlem shake tweak (youtube it )

what do you guys think? i am not currently jailbroken so i'm sure that this isn't all the things that you can do with a jailbreak but just some of the

so... what do you guys think?

[lvstephanie]

As long as you aren't hacking and / or damaging someone else's property, then it should be legal. But by the same token, Apple would also have the right to disallow anyone onto iTunes and/or the App Store that has done that to their device in order to protect their own property.

BTW, I've never heard of "jailbreaking" as being defined this way... I have heard of rooting a device, however, and have actually done that with a Nook tablet that I got for Christmas one year... The apps that they had available for Nooks were few and tended to be more for children, so I made mine into an Android-like device that runs Andriod's Jellybean OS and can download and run apps from Google Play. But in doing so, I violated its warranty, so if it ever breaks I'll be out of luck in perhaps even having Barnse & Noble repairing it. Perhaps "jailbreaking" is more of a term for Apple devices? Or perhaps this is more of a pop-culture slang whereas "rooting" stems from computing jargon where the base directory structure is known as the computer's root.

[deon96]

if your not damaging any one phone. then it should be.

[ladavia89]

That depends on if you think downloading free music and movies should be illegal

I jailbroke my old iphone but I had so many problems with my actual itunes apps working correctly all the time I didn't even bother to do it on this phone. Itunes has so many apps now that I don't really need any outside ones

[pecrafter]

As long as you aren't hacking and / or damaging someone else's property, then it should be legal. But by the same token, Apple would also have the right to disallow anyone onto iTunes and/or the App Store that has done that to their device in order to protect their own property.

BTW, I've never heard of "jailbreaking" as being defined this way... I have heard of rooting a device, however, and have actually done that with a Nook tablet that I got for Christmas one year... The apps that they had available for Nooks were few and tended to be more for children, so I made mine into an Android-like device that runs Andriod's Jellybean OS and can download and run apps from Google Play. But in doing so, I violated its warranty, so if it ever breaks I'll be out of luck in perhaps even having Barnse & Noble repairing it. Perhaps "jailbreaking" is more of a term for Apple devices? Or perhaps this is more of a pop-culture slang whereas "rooting" stems from computing jargon where the base directory structure is known as the computer's root.

yes jail breaking is a term relating specifically to IOS devices

[jmccaskill]

So, it is not illegal, what is the issue? You are not going to be arrested for doing this are you? The matter is up to you and you decide if you want to deal with whatever consequences 'jail breaking' might bring about. Personally I can't imagine being so 'into' a cell phone to even give this much thought... but that is just me