(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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Just a Sony scare tactic

The video is uploaded to my channel so you can give sony a peice of your mind in the comments. You must login or register to view this content.

so if you didnt leave a comment, we all good?

Ok, this is just way out there. Seriously think about it.

So they want the 30 Million viewers IPs.

Whatever, this is fake.

One word: :FU:

more of a face than a word...

IF it is discovered that any site just hands over private information without founded proof of the individuals violation of the law, Rights are protected by our constition to freedom of speech and the alike.

BOYCOT the friggin sites and make sure you publish the site with PROOF and forward it to all your FRIENDS.

Like GOOGLE. A Boycot of their site and GMAIL etc etc would destroy them.

Just LOL. How the hell do they think they can get private information of posters/commenters?! It's been shown it's pretty futile to try and prosecute users by IP address due to public hotspots, insecure wifi, corporate networks etc. making it impossible to find the culprit.

Good luck Sony, you're gonna need it. Scaremongering idiots.

What do you think they would do to people who just watched the video?