Jobs' Next Fight — Dealing With iPhone Hackers

An anonymous reader writes "With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question worth asking is: How will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Software updates, or lawsuits? Will Apple risk losing its most frequently (ab)used legal tool, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in order to try and punish the developers of the iPhone unlocking tools? This CNET article explores the legal issues involved in this, which make it perfectly legal to reverse engineer your own iPhone, but illegal to share your circumventing source code with others."

Arr!

[ackthpt]

They be takin' on the Jolly Roger. I be thinkin' they be changin' the iPhone to detect meddlin' with their cabal. Add a checksum or something.

Lawsuits be expensive.

Re:A Company

[click2005]

I think at times we forget at times Apple is a company and they are in it to make money.

I thought Apple was a religion.

But then most religions exist to make money/fleece the err customers.

We take off and nuke them from orbit...

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

How will Apple try to defeat the hackers?

"We take off and nuke them from orbit; it's the only way to be sure."

Re:Easy to pay!

[elrous0]

By the time your contract runs out, your unremovable battery will be dead.

Re:Easy to pay!

[rizzo420]

i'm sorry, my CD is actually a standard CD. there is no copy protection.

Re:Easy to pay!

[cez]

You forgot the part where you argue that it's OK to break the law when it's convenient for you.

yeah ummm, right right! Forgot that...sorry it's so hard to remember everything posting to slashdot while speeding, talking on my cell phone, typing on the unlocked iPhone I hacked - using un-authorized Wifi of course - and smoking god knows what (gotta love those end of the month specials my dealer puts together with uppers downers and inbetweeners) and a cigarette while this kid in the backseat won't stop spilling her jack and coke. (I'd say he was my kid, but the mom's only 14, so you know that wouldn't sound good.)