Apple's breaking of iPhones that were hacked (by it's user) is now the subject of a new lawsuit, which claims the controversial tactic violates California laws governing antitrust and fair business practices.

The recent updates for the iPhone via iTunes will possibly render any hacked iPhone permanently unusable. This is something that some users of the new iPhone are not finding very funny and have filed a lawsuit against Apple.

If you are not familiar what the new term “iBrick” refers too, it is the new lingo for an iPhone that is now useless and nothing but a “Brick” or paperweight. The iPhones that may have been affected are the ones that were previously hacked by the uploading of 3^rd party software applications allowing the iPhone to work on other cellular networks (other than AT&T) while opening up the operating system to run un-approved-by-Apple software (3^rd party).

The lawsuit claims that the restriction undermines an exemption the US Register of Copyrights made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that specifically allows handset owners to tweak their devices so they work on competing cellular networks. The suit also claims Apple's arrangement with AT&T is an unlawful tying arrangement as defined under California antitrust statutes.

We shall over-see the outcome of this as it happens and have updates posted here on iPod-Addicts.com.

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