Interesting Court Decision makes iPhone jailbreak ok, iPad jailbreak illegal

Computerworld reported today that as of this Sunday it will be illegal for an iPad to be jailbroken, while still remaining legal for the iPhone to be jailbroken.

The reason is there are certain exceptions to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).  This Act makes it illegal for consumers to work around security of devices in order to pirate.  However, according to the article, the Librarian of Congress is "allowed to grant exemptions from the law if it determines users are adversely affected by certain non-infringing issues."   They have decided that users of phones are adversely affected, therefore phones are able to be jailbroken legally.  Jailbreaking an iPhone has been legal since 2010, however this coming Sunday if you jailbreak your iPad you will be breaking the law.  The reason is that tablets do not fall under the phone exemptions.

Another interesting aside from the article for any of you TMobile (or potentially other carrier) iPhone users.  As of 1/26/2013 it will be illegal to jailbreak a phone in order to use a SIM card from another carrier.