(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Demands that Google hand over usernames and IP addresses of anyone that has posted or published comments in response to the video titled “Jailbroken PS3 3.55 with Homebrew” (now private).
Early last month we reported how a user by the name of GeoHot, the same user who helped to crack the iPhone, had posted the root key of the PlayStation 3 (PS3), thereby allowing users to play downloaded games directly on the gaming console.

The root key is sort of the holy grail of jailbreaking because it’s the signature that tells the equipment, in this case the PS3, that the software about to run is legitimate. With this in hand users could run custom software or pirated games.

GeoHot, aka George Hotz, already published the keys and even made a video of his exploits, but Sony has been working overtime to try and scrub the root key from the Internet.

Hotz posted a YouTube video of his exploits titled “Jailbroken PS3 3.55 with Homebrew,” and even though he’s made the video private, Sony has demanded in court that Google hand over the “usernames and IP addresses [of people] that have posted or published ‘comments’ in response to the video.”

And now that the video has been switched to “private” Sony wants “Information and documents sufficient to identify the usernames and/or accounts that have access” to it.



Sony believes that Hotz violated the Digital Millennium Copyright because he bypassed Sony’s technological protection measures for the PS3, and then distributed “illegal Circumvention Devices” – i.e. the root key.

It’s all a quite curious path for Sony to take being that the root key is already out there and can’t simply be forgotten. If anything it’ll make many despise Sony even more, and considering it’s still haunted by the DRM Rootkit scandal you’d think it’d be doing its best to stay below the radar on DRM issues.

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OMG, they are so fuking abussive, or shall I say worried and frustrated? lol
Come on! They can't do that, it must be illegal. The IP is a computers personal ID (that changes sometimes - at least in mine) over the internet, it is like giving your Identity Card, the Deed of your house to a Company that as is paranoid with the hacking over their system they want to do some sort of massive ban retaliation.
Anyways, I've dinamic IP, and have different internet providers for PS3 and PCs.
Nonetheless, this is bullsh1t, someone (lawyers, government, etc) must do something! Come on, what are they? God? No! They can and must be stopped.
Sony vs Consumers - we max out in numbers obviously

look sony your system has been compromised there is no recovery :p

i have 20 videos of my on cfw 3.55 using homebrew / tuts fml going to go remove

sony has no right to do that as its not "illegal" to watch hacks/and or pirating. They may be able to get away with getting the ip address of the people posting the hacks/pirating videos as there are proving that they are using these hacks/pirating methods.

Dont get worried you can post all you want sony has no ground on this one

Your "AWESOME" youtube video is private....

what.../facepalm are you talking about

OH SNAP!,
'Oh no they didnt'
:black:
But seriously if google hand them over thats a flippin joke, jus goes to show money buys legal power its bull. So much for privacy aye.
$ony umadbro? :carling:

When I click your sig for "awesome"
This video is private.
Sorry about that.

lol yeah to lazy to change probs should