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- Bukowsky, on 02/13/2009, -5/+176then take me to jail.. cuz i have one in my pocket right now.
- GregFD3S, on 02/13/2009, -4/+162It's my ***** iPhone, I'll do whatever I want with it!
- inactive, on 02/13/2009, -4/+155You buy the hardware, you basically get to do whatever you want with it.
An old job of mine, I had bought a modified Xbox for my brother and had it mailed to my work, naturally with the permission of my boss, who once she found out it was modified, she went bezerk! In front of 7 people screamed at me "YOURE STEALING FOOD OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABIES!!", followed up by "Youre breaking the law!", once even handed me the EULA for the Xbox in order to shame me (while I was busy working of course). Eventually she tried to have me written up on company ethics violations, which was promptly killed by HR.
If you break it, you buy it. If you buy it, then you can break it. You have that right as a consumer. Apple is basically saying "You can buy it, but not break it!", which is ridiculous because they certainly wont have a problem if I buy 10 iPhones and use them as clay pigeons at a shooting range. - inactive, on 02/14/2009, -5/+98I wasn't going to jailbreak my phone, until this.
- ziggotron, on 02/14/2009, -3/+90***** you Apple, I'll do whatever I want with my iPhone.
- Link00seven, on 02/13/2009, -4/+77Props to the EFF on this one. Keep them corporate bastards at bay.
- GregFD3S, on 02/13/2009, -7/+69Happy 1234567890!
- JimmyTheClam, on 02/14/2009, -0/+59Great story, I hope your old boss was hit by a truck for being an uber-tool.
Does anybody remember way back in the mid to late 1990's when people/idiots were claiming overclocking was unethical because it was "stealing" from the chip manufactures? - andytronic, on 03/25/2009, -2/+55"...very act of jailbreaking the iPhone results in copyright infringement."
thoughtcrime doesn't entail death, thoughtcrime is death. - inactive, on 02/14/2009, -1/+47Blah blah blah, in other news Apple has its head up its ass.
- agentinfinite, on 02/13/2009, -6/+44If they wouldn't be such nazis when it comes to approval of apps, people wouldn't have to jailbreak their phones.
- Dumbledorito, on 02/14/2009, -0/+35Could you imagine if this kind of attitude existed when people started to customize their cars?
- jordantneff, on 02/14/2009, -1/+32Its under license, meaning if it ceases to work because of it, apple can say 'tough *****, you ***** it up'. Its not like we're renting iphones from apple, we buy them, as in they're our property and we can do whatever we damn well please.
- spookyttws, on 02/14/2009, -0/+29***** the DMCA!
- Nobiting, on 02/14/2009, -0/+27If I pay $300 for an iPod touch, I'm going to do whatever I would like to do with it. There should be no questions asked.
- StigNordas, on 02/14/2009, -0/+25If I want to turn my phone into a brick it's my damn choice.
- lilhelper, on 02/14/2009, -4/+29They need to change their adverstisments then...
IPHONE**
** As in our phone, not your phone.
- apple
Screw apple.
If it wasn't for limewire, the MP3 player economy would collapse.
Stop being a hypocrite apple. - peaceninja, on 02/14/2009, -2/+25when i downloaded an app from itunes that messed up all of my contacts that was intended to sync my gmail contacts, i had to jailbreak my iphone in order to download a jailbroken app that lets you delete all your contacts (otherwise, i would have had to delete them one-by-one...and there were over 1200 contacts, and the number kept doubling each time I re-synced with gmail).
if apple lets apps into their itunes store that ruins my contact list, then i lose all faith in their vetting system and i think as a consumer i have a right to bypass their itunes store to fix my issue.
apple is the new microsoft. - LarryLacuna, on 02/13/2009, -4/+25Lock me away as well.
- jamshid, on 02/14/2009, -4/+24http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/5-reasons-to-av ... ----------------------------------------------
Wait, locked up? Prison? It's a phone. Aren't we being a little extreme?
Unfortunately, we are not. The extreme here is represented by Jobs and Apple. The iPhone is an attack on very old and fundamental values -- the value of people having control over their stuff rather than their stuff having control over them, the right to freely communicate and share with others, and the importance of privacy.
The iPhone does make phone calls, but it is not just a phone. It is a general-purpose computer, more powerful in terms of hardware than the ones we might have had sitting on our desks just a few years ago. It's also a tracking device, and like other proprietary GPS-enabled phones, can transmit your location without your knowledge.
As of November 2007, 3.3 billion people in the world had mobile telephones, and the number continues to rise rapidly. For many of these people, phones are becoming the most important computers they own. They are vital to their communications and they are with them all the time. Of all the technology people use that could be turned against them, this is one of the most frightening possibilities.
---------------------------------------------- - inactive, on 02/14/2009, -6/+26Which reminds me
Apple is very proprietary and exclusivists like the Nazis getting rid of whoever is not a Nazi in Germany, especially Jews, in this case windows users and open source.
-Apple supporters are intolerant to those who are not Mac users, almost like how Nazis are racist to other ethnicities.
-Apple's goal has always been to control the apple market share completely from hardware to software to operating system. Just like Hitler controlled all aspects of German life.
-Apple users think they have superior machines and apps vs. all others, like Nazis believed of the German race to be supreme to all other "races".
-Apple sites such as spymac, post only good news about apple and seem to ignore all the bad which most of the time pop up in neutral websites, just like the Nazis used propaganda to brainwash the German people in pursuit of their interests.
-Apple users have very high standards and are aesthetic crazy, just like the Nazi party, everything had to be nice and neat. If Hitler was alive, I am pretty sure he would have gone for an imac.
-Apple users believe that sooner or later everyone will switch to Mac computers, just like Hitler aspired for a 1000 year third Reich to reign all over Europe.
-Apple users believe that Steve Jobs always holds a secret innovative technology that will make apple successful just like the german people who were hearing about rumors of Hitler having secret weapons to defeat the allies in WWII.
-Apple users believe Steve Jobs is God, just like Nazis believe Hitler was divine.
Conclusion?
If you support apple, you are more or less a Nazi in disguise.
Also their naming patterns are also the same
http://ormset.no/wordpress/?p=152 - inactive, on 02/14/2009, -8/+27It's not so much a phone as it is a distraction from a tiny penis.
- orlyfactor, on 02/14/2009, -1/+19Is that a jailbroken iPhone in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
- djbon2112, on 02/14/2009, -1/+19Apple is not some god-company. They are just as bad as Microsoft and the like, sometimes even worse. They whine and bitch to protect their revenue stream at the expense of their customers and fans, like the "bad boys". ***** 'em all. Give me Android.
- ProjectGSX, on 02/13/2009, -3/+20Its interesting that we are seeing "My iPhone APP made me a millionaire" stories and "iPhone APP piracy is running rampant" at the same time.
- nextekcarl, on 02/14/2009, -0/+17Yes. Some people are just insane. And some are just stupid. But those people were both. I feel almost as sorry for them as I feel for myself for knowing some of them.
- vicsvenge, on 02/14/2009, -2/+16Apple really needs to open the architecture of the iPhone up. The App Store is a great idea, but if somebody wants to develop a third party app and distribute it through their own means they should have every right to do so. You can do it on Mac OS X. So why the hell can't you do it on an iPhone?
- MasterGrief, on 02/14/2009, -3/+16You're insane.
Don't ever change. - maz2331, on 02/14/2009, -0/+13Actually, Apple seems to be trying a variation of Lexmark's argument where they attempted to lock third party vendors out of the toner cartridge business by means of an encrypted chip.
Basically, the court ruled that the code was "functional" in nature, not "expressive" and thus not protectable under the DMCA. - namelessXsilent, on 02/14/2009, -1/+13cant call an ipod touch
- ruforealz, on 02/14/2009, -0/+12We're laughing on the inside...
- inactive, on 02/14/2009, -0/+12I only remember hearing about stealing in regards to local re-sellers who would basically overclock and charge a higher price.
Long live the Celeron 300a! That and the SL2W8 Pentium IIs which were 450mhz cpu's under clocked to 300mhz. Saved me 250$ - derbloodlust, on 02/14/2009, -0/+12Doesn't change the fact that when I buy their product, it ceases to be their property. If you broke into my house, I'd probably shoot you, but I can break into my own home anytime I want because it's my ***** house. It's not a difficult concept. My property MY RULES.
- DarkerMaster, on 02/14/2009, -1/+12I'm Spartacus
- mikek814, on 02/13/2009, -3/+13I am not going to incriminate myself in this forum :-)
- StevieJanowski, on 04/02/2009, -0/+10If they start going after people for this it would be even more absurd than the whole Phelps thing that is going on right now.
- handheldchimp, on 02/14/2009, -0/+9YODA IS A DIGG USER!?!?!?!
- inactive, on 02/14/2009, -0/+9What a bitch
- osok, on 02/14/2009, -0/+9I worked as a firmware programmer for one of the big three, that wanted to do just that.
the idea was that you wouldn't own the firmware in the vehicle, it was licensed only to the first owner. If the owner sold the vehicle the new owner would have to relicense the software.
our job was to find a way to detect when owners had changed. I cant revel how we did it, but it was highly effective. If drivers changed and the original driver did not drive the vehicle for a period of time, you had 30 days to relicense, or the car shuts down.
truly evil, yes. but thats the arrogance of the big three.
The program was scrubbed when someone finally pointed out to management that this would probably be a PR nightmare.
oh well was a good high paying gig while it lasted :-) - Nosferotu, on 02/14/2009, -2/+11Ditto man. Apple, I'm the most devoted of fanboys, but you are walking a dangerous ***** line with this. I will stick to Apple to very near the end, but this is an area I will not compromise - if I buy a piece of hardware, it's mine, and I can do whatever the hell I want to do with it. If you are going to try to get me prosecuted for using something I bought from you how I want to use it, I'm going to stop buying things from you.
So this will be the first, and hopefully the last, time I say this: ***** you, Apple. - inactive, on 02/14/2009, -5/+13Apple can suck my dick. They block many music videos from youtube and there's no flash, all this so we buy from itunes store. For example "I'm on a boat" is still blocked and many others but I can find versions of it with crappy quality or just audio. Suck my dick apple!!!
- spookyttws, on 02/14/2009, -0/+8I hold no contract with Apple. I bought a device from them, a piece of hardware with a certain version of software on it. I should be free to wipe clean that software, modify or change it any way I like as long as I don't then try and sell that modified software for profit.
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -2/+10I have a jailbroken iPhone, a softmodded XBOX, and a hackintosh... should I be afraid?
jebus.... - mikelieman, on 02/14/2009, -0/+8If you're not making any copies, how are you violating anyone's copyrights?
- mrsteveman1, on 02/14/2009, -0/+8The only person who ever handles copyrighted code during jailbreak is the owner of the device, the one who already was sold a copy of this code and has a right to USE IT however they wish.
- jordantneff, on 02/14/2009, -0/+7Nope... apple doesn't make xbox ;)
- zeth006, on 02/14/2009, -1/+8So if something is passed by law, is it moral? Is it necessarily "right?"
Is the marijuana growth and consumption ban necessarily "right" just because it's "law?"
If I by some miracle pass a law banning TV shows such as American Idol on grounds that they're destructive to the contestants' self-esteem...is that "right?"
You little sheep need to stop trying to act pedantic. Giving off a "high and mighty and I'm holier than thou" impression doesn't make you sound smarter. It just makes you sound like an *****.
Nerys has a point that a lot of us have been supporting by and large. If we pay $200-$300 for a product, common sense and logic dictates that we should be allowed to do whatever we want with it short of using it to hack into CIA servers or illicitly download certain types of porn. If App store just doesn't fulfill all our needs, who's to say that Apple should still monopolize what users can download? Why doesn't Microsoft then have the right to monopolize which browsers and media players we can download/use?
Use your heads.
For anyone's who's interested, Samsung and a few other companies are releasing their own app stores. Samsung's scale of economics obviously isn't going to be as great but Samsung's current P2/P3 should be seeing future enhancements such as an OLED screen, wifi, and who knows...lossless codecs? The player's popularity seems to have gained lately. - misterparry, on 02/14/2009, -0/+7what?
- bitterbug, on 02/14/2009, -2/+9Actually you lose as well, by invoking Godwin.
It's a tricky law. :) - drachemorder, on 02/14/2009, -2/+9If copyright law really said that, then copyright law is completely wrong and needs to be amended.
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