The DevTeam has always been very anti-warez AFAIK.
The legality was in question before, though. Never totally 100% THIS IS CLEARLY ILLEGAL, but certainly a grey area, at best.
There were previously "issues" over the status of Jailbreaking, because it involved circumventing the "technological copyright protection measures" (or whatever they call it)... something the DMCA prohibits.
The new DMCA exemption granted by the Copyright Office specifically allows it though:
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Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.
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There's also the use of Apple's copyrighted code, from changing the firmware. That's now allowed too though, as it's a tiny amount of code that's changed, & it's solely for this newly decreed fair use.
This is a good article on it:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...e-fair-use.ars
Console modchips are a similar issue. You own the console, it's yours to do with as you wish. But... a modchip violates the DMCA, due to it being a "circumvention measure" (it bypasses the protection & allows the use of copied games), and due to it tinkering with the copyrighted software of the console manufacturer (well, Xbox1 modchips did anyway). Not sure what the current standing is with them though...