On Tuesday 08 June 2010 15:00:25 narendra sisodiya wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Amol Hatwar <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A quick read of my recent blog post at > > http://hatwar.org/epilogue/ should give you a feeler about the > > problems I am facing. > > > > Basically, when one buys an iPhone from the official channel in > > India (Airtel or Vodafone), one is glued to the service provider > > for life. (Think about a contract that can't be terminated or > > reversed). Despite paying the full price for the device, you > > can't change your telephony provider. Doing so involves > > unlocking/jailbreaking the iPhone which is illegal according to > > Apple. > > NO, its not. It will only break the warranty. It is legal to > anything* on a device which you own.
Jail breaking a locked device (aka cicumvention of copyprotection) is not merely illegal it is a crime. You can be arrested. http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightAmendmentBill2010.pdf Protection of technological measure “65A. (1) Any person who circumvents an effective technological applied for the purpose of protecting any of the rights conferred by this Act, with the intention of infringing such rights, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine. The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2010 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 19 April, 2010 by minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal. Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
