Jailbreak iPhone? Legal! Jailbreak Xbox? Jail!

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:24PM

An anonymous reader writes "Back in July, the Librarian of Congress officially made it legal to jailbreak your iPhone (or any phone). However, why is it that the government is trying to send Matthew Crippen to jail for three years for jailbreaking Xboxes? What kind of law says it's okay to jailbreak the phone in your pocket, but not your gaming console?"
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