US Copyright Office Posts 2012 DMCA Exemption Comments | Download Sauriks Comments Here

Posted by Admin on Feb 20, 2012 in Apple, Cydia, Jailbreak |

All of the 2012 DMCA exemption comments have been released from the the US Copyright Office. Creator and Developer of Cydia, Jay Freeman aka saurik, listed #14. Apple was not one of the comments listed.

The US Copyright Office has finished posting all of our 2012 DMCA exemption comments! I’m #14. Apple didn’t comment. ;P copyright.gov/1201/2012/comm…

— Jay Freeman (saurik) (@saurik) February 20, 2012

Closed Ecosystem:
Apple holds up their App Store as a compelling success story, and uses their numbers to show that vendors can provide positive
incentives to developers that encourage the production of new distributed works. To date, the Apple App Store has over 500,000
applications listed. A similar marketplace for a competing set of devices, the Android Market, now has over 200,000.
Unfortunately, in addition to providing a new way to distribute software, many vendors have decided to also remove the
preexisting alternatives. On Apple’s iPhone, third–party software can only be distributed to the device by way of their App Store.
Consumers who purchase one of Apple’s devices must go through Apple to obtain any additional software. Then, in exchange
for virtual shelf space and payment processing, Apple takes a cut of the revenue made with each sale.

(Saurik)