Jailbreaking was given a temporary exemption from the DMCA. That doesn't mean it's necessarily legal, nor does it mean that it doesn't violate the terms of the contract with your carrier.
No, it just means that it doesn't violate one part of one law: the anticircumvention provision of the DMCA.
And the exemption only applies if "circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such [software] applications, when they have been lawfully obtained..." One could argue that skirting carrier rules on tethering is different from enabling interoperability.
Further, it has no bearing on any contract you may have with your carrier.
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Jailbreaking was given a temporary exemption from the DMCA. That doesn't mean it's necessarily legal, nor does it mean that it doesn't violate the terms of the contract with your carrier.
Doesn't that explicitly mean it's legal? At least for the time of the exemption.
No, it just means that it doesn't violate one part of one law: the anticircumvention provision of the DMCA.
And the exemption only applies if "circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such [software] applications, when they have been lawfully obtained..." One could argue that skirting carrier rules on tethering is different from enabling interoperability.
Further, it has no bearing on any contract you may have with your carrier.