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A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present.

Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) raises a host of web-privacy concerns.

Respected for his iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, Hotz is accused of breaching the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws after he published an encryption key and software tools on his website that allow Playstation owners to gain complete control of their consoles from the firmware on up.

Sony also won subpoenas (.pdf) for data from YouTube and Google, as part of its lawsuit against the 21-year-old New Jersey hacker, as well as Twitter account data linked to Hotz, who goes by the handle GeoHot.

Bluehost maintains Hotz’s geohot.com site. The approved subpoena requires the company to turn over “documents reproducing all server logs, IP address logs, account information, account access records and application or registration forms” tied to Hotz’s hosting. The Bluehost subpoena also demands “any other identifying information corresponding to persons or computers who have accessed or downloaded files hosted using your service and associated” with the You must login or register to view this content. website, including but not limited to the “geohot.com/jailbreak.zip file.”


Sony told Spero, a San Francisco magistrate, that it needed the information for at least two reasons.

One is to prove the “defendant’s distribution” of the hack. The other involves a jurisdictional argument over whether Sony must sue Hotz in his home state of New Jersey rather than in San Francisco, which Sony would prefer. Sony said the server logs would demonstrate that many of those who downloaded Hotz’s hack reside in Northern California — thus making San Francisco a proper venue for the case.

The DMCA prohibits the trafficking of so-called “circumvention devices” designed to crack copy-protection schemes. The law does not require Sony to prove that Hotz received payment for the hack, which was designed to allow PlayStation 3 owners the ability to run home-brewed software or alternative operating systems like Linux. It builds on a series of earlier jailbreaks that unlocked less protected levels of the PlayStation’s authentication process.

Jailbreaking a console is also a prerequisite to running pirated copies of games, which Sony emphasizes in its lawsuit.

“I think the these subpoenas, the information they seek, is inappropriate,” said Corynne McSherry, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a letter to Magistrate Spero, she termed the subpoenas “overly broad.” (.pdf)

The judge also signed off on a Google subpoena seeking the logs for Hotz’s Blogger.com blog, geohotps.3.blogspot.com.

A YouTube subpoena, also approved, seeks information connected to the “geohot” account that displayed a video of the hack being used: “Jailbroken PS3 3.55 with Homebrew.” The subpoena demands data to identify who watched the video and “documents reproducing all records or usernames and IP addresses that have posted or published comments in response to the video.”

A fourth subpoena is directed at Twitter, demanding the disclosure of all of Hotz’s tweets, and “documents sufficient to identify all names, addresses, and telephone numbers associated with the Twitter account.”

Sony has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key. It is seeking unspecified damages from Hotz.

A hearing on whether Hotz will be tried in San Francisco or New Jersey is set for next month in San Francisco federal court.

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BTW F*CK SONY
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMfg Will i get sued? And go to jail? Im to young

Sony is going to far. Why would it matter if someone viewed his videos? I doubt they can punish someone just for viewing someones videos or looking at their tweets or blogs. How far will they go with this bs?

True Dat. They will prob try to sue everyone now and get away with this too. :\

I don't think there really gonna do that. My reason of disbelief is because lets say I went on geohot.com and they took my IP off of there, They can't just sue me or whatever they have to have legitimate proof I have done something Illegal and if they try doing anything and end result I just went to it by accident they'll be the one's getting in trouble also there is no way there gonna get all IP Addresses and Sue everyone.

Sony can blow me. As far as they're concerned, I gained access to his website by jerking off one night, and googled some porn videos, and somehow, magically wound up on his website.

Oh yeah. And no, homo.

Also you may say know but I hope you say yes! So would you wan't to make a coding clan? I am asking you because in the coding forum only people that wanted to join were people who could only just a mw2 patch witch kinda pisses me off. Are you willing to do ps3 coding/hacking etc and other stuff? Thx for reading I don't know of any names yet but my other account I use is Its--A--Virus
I was thinking the name could be Silent? Like mine would be Silent Virus
an your's would be Silent Dutch
Well I guess reply if you say yes

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Sorry I misread the ToS for Sony

Thank god I just looked up a random, unpopular YouTube video for the jailbreak thingy. If they find out IPs from every jailbreaking video made on YouTube, that'd make me a bit scared.

Sony is just being a total dickhead. Why do they have to be a f*cking nerd and search for all IPs and report those who downloaded/viewed GeoHotz' blog and etc.

God damn.

You sir are obviously a troll.

thanks for the heads up m8