> Notice that he's also saying that it's legal to jailbreak a phone (it isn't, anymore,)
Except that it is (in the US at least, the country that is the subject of this article). Carrier unlocking on newly purchased locked phones is no longer legal in the US, which may be what you were thinking of, but he addresses this in the paragraph following the one you cited:
"As of January, it’s not legal to unlock your phone without the permission of the carrier that you bought it from, assuming they locked it in the first place."
> and that the reason it was legal was an exemption to the DMCA (which is completely incorrect.)
"the U.S. Copyright Office explicitly recognized an exemption to the DMCA to permit jailbreaking in order to allow iPhone owners to use their phones with applications that are not available from Apple's store"[1]
> This is why you don't take legal advice from random programmers on the internet.
Except that it is (in the US at least, the country that is the subject of this article). Carrier unlocking on newly purchased locked phones is no longer legal in the US, which may be what you were thinking of, but he addresses this in the paragraph following the one you cited:
"As of January, it’s not legal to unlock your phone without the permission of the carrier that you bought it from, assuming they locked it in the first place."
> and that the reason it was legal was an exemption to the DMCA (which is completely incorrect.)
"the U.S. Copyright Office explicitly recognized an exemption to the DMCA to permit jailbreaking in order to allow iPhone owners to use their phones with applications that are not available from Apple's store"[1]
> This is why you don't take legal advice from random programmers on the internet.
You said it.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#United_States