Post: Sony Demands IP Addresses of YouTube PS3 Hack Viewers
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02-08-2011, 07:55 PM
#1
-O-Z-Z-A-8-8-
At least I can fight
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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02-08-2011, 10:57 PM
#38
Charleyzard
Bounty hunter
Originally posted by Jaytech
he should have hacked youtube's servers before posting his vids.
He hacks hardware, not software.
02-08-2011, 10:57 PM
#39
IxEvolutionIx
Banned
Even comments now that i dont belive what if someone just said"Hacks are gay" next thing you now you get a nock on your door FBI...
02-08-2011, 10:58 PM
#40
effinTyler
betch.
Sony can just go ahead and suck it,
Sony can't get our private IP addresses, or what are they gonna do sue us for commenting a on a damn video.
Really sony, this is a new low.
Sony can't get our private IP addresses, or what are they gonna do sue us for commenting a on a damn video.
Really sony, this is a new low.
02-08-2011, 11:07 PM
#41
demize
Maggbot timeout!
Originally posted by lee20
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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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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**** SONY'S LAWYERS AND THERE ATTEMPT TO STOP HOMEBREW! IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! Let me repeat that, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
02-08-2011, 11:11 PM
#43
-Hazz-
Grunt
Guys think about it,
1. They would have to sue Youtube first, for hosting the video.
2. The amount of users would need a big court room
3. We are only spectating the video.
4. Even in the source it tells us that it is only for the people who have published comments and posts.
1. They would have to sue Youtube first, for hosting the video.
2. The amount of users would need a big court room
3. We are only spectating the video.
4. Even in the source it tells us that it is only for the people who have published comments and posts.
02-08-2011, 11:20 PM
#45
New York BOY !
Service Shop Owner ;
Oh i wish they would!!! Mother ****ers gon know what it is. I spent ****ing $500 on that bitch. Then get it banned, sued w.e? Oh i wish they would. Oh man.
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