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]]> By: Sheesh http://ossguy.com/?p=696#comment-495 Sheesh Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:44:13 +0000 http://ossguy.com/?p=696#comment-495 "Whether a particular technology, such as one used to prevent the running of non-approved applications on an iPad or similar device, would be captured by the TPM provisions would depend on whether it meets the definition of TPM in the Bill. This would be up to Canadian courts to interpret." If we look at the TPM provisions we can clearly see that they refer to a technology that restricts one of the actions that a copyright holder may do to a work. So to jailbreak is to modify, it is to circumvent the DRM on the device to allow you to run code that you want to run. To do so you modify their product (you make a derivative work, you modify their work). Modification is clearly listed in section 3 of the copyright act. Therefore modifying the iOS is exactly what the DRM was meant to prevent. Therefore it is a TPM. Therefore jailbreaking is TPM circumvention (iOS is a work under the copyright law). Therefore these people you are writing to don't seem to have a clue or refuse to the answer the question because they know you'll post it on the internet and make them look bad. “Whether a particular technology, such as one used to prevent the running of non-approved applications on an iPad or similar device, would be captured by the TPM provisions would depend on whether it meets the definition of TPM in the Bill. This would be up to Canadian courts to interpret.”

If we look at the TPM provisions we can clearly see that they refer to a technology that restricts one of the actions that a copyright holder may do to a work. So to jailbreak is to modify, it is to circumvent the DRM on the device to allow you to run code that you want to run. To do so you modify their product (you make a derivative work, you modify their work). Modification is clearly listed in section 3 of the copyright act. Therefore modifying the iOS is exactly what the DRM was meant to prevent. Therefore it is a TPM. Therefore jailbreaking is TPM circumvention (iOS is a work under the copyright law).

Therefore these people you are writing to don’t seem to have a clue or refuse to the answer the question because they know you’ll post it on the internet and make them look bad.

]]> By: Sheesh http://ossguy.com/?p=696#comment-494 Sheesh Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:40:16 +0000 http://ossguy.com/?p=696#comment-494 Wow what a non-answer. It is up to the courts. What was the intent of the bill then! We're not bloody lawyers, we're citizens, tell us! Wow what a non-answer. It is up to the courts. What was the intent of the bill then! We’re not bloody lawyers, we’re citizens, tell us!

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