(****************************************Enlarge/An image from Apple’s lawsuit shows a real iPhone X and Corellium’s service running a virtual iPhone X.AppleApple has expanded a lawsuit against an iOS virtualization company, claiming that its actions facilitate jailbreaking and violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibition on circumvention of copyright-protection systems.
The case is in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida.Jailbreaking of smartphonesand tablets such as iPhones and iPads is allowed in the US due to a DMCA exemptiongranted by the US Copyright Office (a division of the Library of Congress).
The Copyright Office says the DMCA exemption for jailbreaking phones and tablets is intended “to allow the device to interoperate with or to remove software applications. ” There’s also a DMCAexemptionfor security research on all types of devices. But to qualify for the security exemption, it must be “good-faith security research” that is “carried out in an environment designed to avoid any harm to individuals or the public.”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation********************** Describe DMCA exemptions in general as “too narrow and too complex for most technology users. “
Corellium bypasses encryption and hardware checks, Apple says
Apple alleges that Corellium’s sale of iOS replicas without Apple’s authorization amounts to “trafficking in technologies, products, or services” Designed to bypass or remove technological measures that control access to Apple’s copyrighted works, in violation of Section 2019. Those Apple technological measures “include encryption, hardware checks, and server checks that prevent iOS from being installed and executed on non-Apple-authorized hardware, and prevent unfettered access to the iOS operating system.”
“Corellium’s technology is highly transformative because it does not merely replicate Apple’s products for the same purposes for which the products were Developed. Instead, Corellium’s technology utilizes portions of Apple’s technology for entirely distinct purposes, which provide significant societal benefits, “Corellium wrote.
Rather than using or replicating iOS, Corellium claimed that it “uses its own proprietary software to facilitate executing iOS on different hardware. “
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