Apple says iPhone jailbreaking is illegal

Apple filed comments with the U.S. Copyright Office recently (as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rule making) arguing that jailbreaking the iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation. Several groups and individuals have comments posted how this interpretation of the DMCA is  incorrect and serves to  only limit or hurt the consumer.  Certainly if Apple’s interpretation became law, it would pose an obstacle in some analyst’s  minds to Jonathan Zdziarski’s effective technique for forensically analyzing the iPhone even though this technique is technically not jailbreaking the iPhone.