(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "A federal magistrate said Sony may subpoena the PayPal account of PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, as the gamemaker ratchets up its civil lawsuit against the man who released the first full-fledged PS3 jailbreak in the console’s four-year history.

Tuesday’s order came two weeks after Magistrate Joseph Spero in San Francisco granted Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who had visited Hotz’s website from January of 2009 onward. Sony has also won subpoenas for data from YouTube and Google, as well as Twitter account data linked to Hotz, who goes by the handle GeoHot.

Respected for his iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, the 21-year-old New Jersey man is accused of breaching the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws after his website published an encryption key and software tools that allow PlayStation owners to gain complete control of their consoles from the firmware on up. Hotz has complied with a court order and removed the hack.

The latest development allows the Japanese console maker to acquire “documents sufficientto identify the source of funds (.pdf) in California that went into any PayPal account associated with [email][email protected][/email] for the period of January 1, 2009, to February 1, 2011,” Spero ruled.

The information sought is part of a jurisdictional argument over whether Sony must sue Hotz in his home state of New Jersey rather than in San Francisco, where Sony would prefer.

Regarding the PayPal account, Sony claims Hotz has accepted monetary donations for the hack from people residing in Northern California — an argument that, if true, might make San Francisco a proper venue for the litigation.

Hotz denies he accepted donations. Sony, which has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key, is seeking unspecified damages from Hotz.

The DMCA prohibits the trafficking of so-called “circumvention devices” designed to crack copy-protection schemes. The law, however, 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."



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Another source and picture haha

Still think geo can win this

lol at your speed how the fck do you get online m8 lmao you should ring orange and tell them go fck themselves.

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Who can blame sony for taking this kind of action? They are a company that trying to protect their ps3. I want see who wins Sony or Geohotz. Will see how the case folds out. It like tug of war between sony and geoohot

FFS.. When will they stop the madness?? They've made their point.. They've made Geohot an example.. Just leave it.. We get the message..

i get were your coming from. i mean i even use geohot cfw when he released it so i have nothing against him. but as a business mind. you have to understand why sony taking these actions. do i agree with it? hell no because then it limits us to have access to what sony has taken from us. i just hope geohot pulls this off. but like you said sony may have pulled it off. will see how it folds. anything can happen.

we should have control of our ps3's its MY ps3 as soon it leaves the damn store its MINE and im going to do wat ever the hell i want to do with it. SONY=FAIL (its cool for sony to break privacy but yet we cant control our ps3s) SONY=:scared: