zirik wrote on Jan 21, 2012, 01:49:

Creston wrote on Jan 20, 2012, 23:27:
Well...

1) Jailbreaking was ruled to be legal. So I'm not sure why a video teaching you how to jailbreak would somehow violate anything, much less

2) actually be copyright infringement. Unless Apple somehow trademarked the entire act of jailbreaking.

I'm not sure what provision you want Youtube to be punished with? Under SOPA this would undoubtedly be illegal (as would reading an email with the word apple in it, most likely), but under the DMCA, there is no infringement in such a video. It's an instructional video and falls (justifiably) under the First Amendment.

Creston

well... maybe the videos are deemed legal but the links posted along with them that gives you all the tools and files needed to do the jailbreaking/modding is illegal. and after you jailbreak your device there are also videos showing off the result complete with download links for the games being played. dont tell me those are covered by the safe harbor status.