Post: Regarding Sony Tracking IP Addresses
03-06-2011, 09:36 PM #1
CLM
[b]They say sorry Mr. West is..[/b]
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Read the spoiler if you haven't:

A federal magistrate ruled this week that Sony can subpoena the ISP of a hacker who has released a PlayStation 3 jailbreak, as well as order Twitter, Google, and YouTube to hand over information from his accounts on those sites.
Sony is suing George Hotz, alleging that he violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud Abuse Act for distributing on his Web site his tools for jailbreaking the PS3, which enable PS3 owners to run home brew and pirated applications on their console. The DMCA prohibits the trafficking of devices designed to circumvent copy protection technologies.
The decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero in the Northern District of California grants Sony the right to ask Hotz' Web provider, Bluehost, for the IP addresses of visitors to Hotz' geohot.com site since January 2009, as well as server logs and other information related to the account, and information on computers that accessed or downloaded files from it, Wired reported.
According to court documents, Sony also wants Hotz' tweets that relate to his hacking of the PS3, as well as information on people who posted comments to his blog on Blogspot and on people who had access to a video he uploaded to YouTube demonstrating his jailbreak tools.

Courtesy of CNET


Anyway, I have been messaged multiple times about this, with people asking me what they're going to do. Relax. They aren't going to sue you or hunt you down. Do you really think they have the time to do this to millions of people? Of course not. The only logic behind this in my opinion is Sony just using the number of IP's that visited his sites as evidence in the case. I know this may seem like common sense to some, but there is a lot of unneeded fear going around.

So everyone should just relax and calm down. Unless your name is Graf_Chokolo or Geohot don't be afraid Winky Winky
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03-06-2011, 10:57 PM #20
PsYcHoSiS
Eatin' poopy
Originally posted by guitar3652 View Post
Lol i did :bro:


W00T :P :P
Thanks bro
03-06-2011, 11:23 PM #21
qwerew
Member Of The Pewdiepie Bro Army
Couldn't have said it any better. Nice job.
03-07-2011, 02:39 AM #22
Originally posted by AsTrO View Post
I visited the site purposely. :P

haha same here once i knew they were going to do that
03-07-2011, 02:42 AM #23
Cody_h4x
Nobody is like me
I was thinking the exact same thing :wtf: great minds think alike :black:
03-07-2011, 02:45 AM #24
HtD
Dark Knight
I thought they were gonna put a strike on all those ips, so like next thing u do ur banned kinda thing. But this makes more sense.
03-07-2011, 02:55 AM #25
Brian235026
< ^ > < ^ >
thanks for the confirm i didnt think they would do anything and if they did that would destroy PSN and sony
03-07-2011, 02:56 AM #26
ihaxgames
Treasure hunter
They are probably going to use this to go after Devs such as KakaRoTo, Mathieulh, and probably Waninkoko
03-07-2011, 03:01 AM #27
longshotsniper
Can’t trickshot me!
i
hate
creepers
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
03-07-2011, 03:13 AM #28
d1215
Gym leader
Exactly, Sony can't and won't do anything. Theres nothing the law or Sony said that we could not download that file or visit that site. Sony never said we couldn't so they can't do anything. If the came out and said to the public "Please do not download anything from geohot.com or watch any of geohots videos or there will be consequences". So everyone is safe, chill out.

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