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Xbox 360 Jailbreaker May Need Real Jailbreak

Posted by Soulskill on from the root-root-root-for-the-home-team dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Back in July, the Librarian of Congress officially made it legal to jailbreak your iPhone (or any phone). So why is it that the government is trying to prosecute Matthew Crippen for jailbreaking Xbox 360s? If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison, and lawyers are trying to prevent the author of a book about jailbreaking the original Xbox from testifying in Crippen's defense. What kind of law says it's okay to jailbreak the phone in your pocket, but not your gaming console?"

2 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The law is weird....you know this. by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like you have... a problem with authority! Why don't you stop being a criminal? After all, the law is always right. This is just how the world works, and since it could, potentially, be worse, you might as well not bother trying to change it.

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    Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
  2. Re:What kind of law? by Terrasque · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doesn't quite rhyme properly any more.

    The land of the fee and home of the slave?

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    It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."