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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02-12-2011, 08:37 PM
#56
RavagedBoom
Sing My Guitar
They cant just presume were all hacking because we watched a video. So if I watch funny baby videos I also have a fetish for humping baby's?
02-12-2011, 08:40 PM
#57
ChromeZ
Haxor!
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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Well I checked out the site and I think it says something in there about only people who have access to it right now. And also the people who commentated. Is this true?
*Also dont we have the right to free speech? (Please, dont flame)
02-12-2011, 08:44 PM
#58
-O-Z-Z-A-8-8-
At least I can fight
Originally posted by ChromeZ
Well I checked out the site and I think it says something in there about only people who have access to it right now. And also the people who commentated. Is this true?
*Also dont we have the right to free speech? (Please, dont flame)
*Also dont we have the right to free speech? (Please, dont flame)
im not sure but i think they got denied to subpeona youtube,twitter and google so i dnt think they guna get you i wouldnt worry to much
and i jus swapped my slim 120gb 3.56 for a 3.55 80gb phat boi
02-12-2011, 08:47 PM
#59
ChromeZ
Haxor!
Originally posted by lee20
im not sure but i think they got denied to subpeona youtube,twitter and google so i dnt think they guna get you i wouldnt worry to much
and i jus swapped my slim 120gb 3.56 for a 3.55 80gb phat boi
and i jus swapped my slim 120gb 3.56 for a 3.55 80gb phat boi
Subpeona? Sorry could you explain? Also should I update to 3.56 OFW?
02-12-2011, 08:52 PM
#61
-O-Z-Z-A-8-8-
At least I can fight
Originally posted by ChromeZ
Subpeona? Sorry could you explain? Also should I update to 3.56 OFW?
"A subpoena is a command to appear at a certain time and place to give testimony upon a certain matter.... A document requiring a person to attend as a witness.... [T]he term subpoena contemplates some document issued by a third party that compels a person to attend as a witness in order to give testimony."
bassically i think they tried to get youtube,twitter and google to do this and hand over info on hackers ip adresses of who viewed the vid
02-15-2011, 07:58 AM
#62
REVeran_
Haxor!
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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i'm pretty sure thats illegal...
sony are invafing more privacy than the uk government
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