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by gluxon 2004 days ago
As of the date of this document (2013), no. This is technically not legal. The Library of Congress exempted phones from the DCMA but not video game consoles.

I don't believe the ruling has changed since 2015.

> The Register also confirmed that the exemption for gamers should not extend to jailbreaking of console software because such jailbreaking is strongly associated with video game piracy.

https://copyright.gov/1201/2015/fedreg-publicinspectionFR.pd...