funkateer on 25 February 2011
"See the recent phone rulings... it was ruled legal because the same steps needed to make use of legal locked programs allowed piracy.
The piracy is still illegal, but not the jailbreaking iteslf."
As I understood the phone rulings, jailbraking the iPhone was deemed legal because the court ruled that locking the iPhone was not to protect copyright or security, but only to prevent competition of phone carriers. As such, it was also stated that jailbreaking an iPad is still illegal.
Phone carriers are obviously not involved in the PS3 case, so it's an entirely different matter.
