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Noose slowly tightens around GeoHot
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author

Posted in ID, 16th March 2011 23:53 GMT
A federal judge in San Francisco has given Sony permission to subpoena the PayPal records of George Hotz, the hacker being sued for jailbreaking the company's PlayStation 3 game console.

Tuesday's order by US Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero said the information subject to Sony's subpoena “shall be provided on an Attorneys' Eyes Only basis” and is limited to information relating to whether Hotz has enough ties to Northern California to be sued in federal court in that district. Hotz, who goes by the hacking moniker GeoHot, is a resident of New Jersey, and has argued that the court lacks the authority to try him.

The ruling comes in a copyright case Sony brought in January against Hotz and 100 other hackers believed to have also devised a way to run unauthorized games and apps on the PS3. Earlier this month, Sony got approval for a subpoena allowing it to obtain the IP addresses of everyone who visited Hotz's personal website for the past 26 months.

At the same time, Sony also received permission to subpoena Twitter, Google and another service for information related to accounts held by the 21-year-old Hotz.

In Tuesday's order, Spero went on to order Hotz to sign a consent form permitting Sony to obtain his Twitter posts from January 2009 to the present and to “appear in California for a deposition relating solely to the question of personal jurisdiction.”

Sony's lawsuit alleges that Hotz violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by posting videos and blog posts showing how to bypass technical measures Sony put into the PS3 so it would run only games and apps permitted by the console maker.

The PayPal subpoena covers “documents sufficient to identify the source of funds 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.”

Sony has argued that such information will prove that he has ties to Northern California and therefore can be sued in San Francisco, which is about a half-hour's drive from headquarters for Sony Computer Entertainment America, the division that's suing the hacker. ®

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sorry already been posted many times

you almost feel bad for these posters but i wish this forum wasn't so full of this type of stuff.

i think there should be stickied threads for geohot ,all back up managers, cfw's, an all inclusive compatibility list (psn and bluray, 3.41 and 3.55, games that have multiple sizes state whats missing, working eboots for each game) and a psn banning info/psn access.first one to post it inside the thread wins they can get cred for finding the source on the front page of the stickied thread and maybe have a hotlink to be thanked for there post or to plus rep them.


i haven't been here long enough to try to get something like this to stick. Maybe there can be multiple people administering the thread so its constantly updated. it'd be nice to know exactly where to go to find the most current information on those things. not threads like this one getting bumped by people like me.

i know theres already a stickied direct boot compatibility list. thats a nice start but that could be just one column of a bigger compatibility list.

Is it me or does Sony keep winning these subpoenas!?
Screw them

Wow POSTED

wow.......

Lastest news? Sorry but your late on hearing this news.. Its been posted for about a week now...

Considering Sony was awarded the PayPal injunction yesterday, I don't see how this was posted a week ago... unless Ms. Cleo was the one who posted it.

i posted this like about 5 days ago now m8 all it take is to look for it before you post the same thing m8 before people flame at you for posting it again when people all ready have

Nice thanks bro :y: