Everyone's IP That Ever Visited Geohot's Site since 2009 now In Sony's Hands
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[URL]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/geohot-site-unmasking/[/URL]
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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 [URL="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/03/speroruling.pdf"]allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider[/URL] (.pdf) raises a host of web-privacy concerns. Bluehost, which maintains Hotz’s [URL="http://geohot.com/"]geohot.com site[/URL], received a subpoena as part of Sony’s lawsuit against the 21-year-old New Jersey hacker.
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 [URL="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/03/sonyexhibit.pdf"]subpoenas[/URL] (.pdf) for data from YouTube and Google, as well as Twitter account data linked to Hotz, who goes by the handle GeoHot.
The [URL="http://www.bluehost.com/"]Bluehost[/URL] 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 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 [URL="http://www.geohot.com"]www.geohot.com[/URL] 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 “[URL="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/03/effletter.pdf"]overly broad[/URL].” (.pdf)
The judge also signed off on a Google subpoena seeking the logs for Hotz’s Blogger.com blog, [URL="http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/"]geohotps.3.blogspot.com[/URL].
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 [URL="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/sony-lawsuit-factory/"]threatened to sue anybody[/URL] 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.[/quote]
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Hah
So how long before we hear Sony's hired hitmen?
This is stupid. If anything wouldn't all this nonsense this hurt Sony's image?
Good thing I never even heard of the site.
This is probably just scare tactics.
big deal, Sony has a list of IPs. They can't ban everyone who was ever curious about jailbreaking their iPhone/iPod/PS3 from the PSN.
[url=http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/]You mean this site?[/url]
fuck.
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[B]The DMCA prohibits the trafficking of so-called “circumvention devices” designed to crack copy-protection schemes.[/B] 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[B] running pirated copies of games[/B], [B]which Sony emphasizes in its lawsuit.[/B][/quote]
But he even said he's against piracy, this is ridiculous.
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Captain Lawlrus;28427963]big deal, Sony has a list of IPs. They can't ban everyone who was ever curious about jailbreaking their iPhone/iPod/PS3 from the PSN.[/QUOTE]
No, they can, and probably will.
Haha what the fuck does Sony even think they're doing?
[QUOTE=Inspector Jones;28427976][url=http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/]You mean this site?[/url][/QUOTE]
No, this one [url]http://geohot.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=Article;28427803]Sony has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key[/QUOTE]
Good luck with that.
i swear i was just looking for directions to the nearest linux distro site.
I've only wnet on it for the Ipod jailbreaking, then that was it.
lol, good luck, Sony.
Next up, anyone who even knows that these hacks exist will be sued.
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
And then anyone who's friends with someone who knows will be sued.
Wow Sony I'm so scared! You got my IP address. What you going to do with it?
Even if I had been to his site, my IP would have changed a bazillion times since.
Oh no. Sony is going to sue Google's webcrawler!
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Sony has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key[/quote]
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[url]https://github.com/srlx/fail0verflow[/url]
COME AT ME BRO
What did they accomplish by doing this?
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So it took 3 years to hack the PS3, and when it finally happened Sony tore shit up.
Good work.
[QUOTE=RAWRrrr;28428155]So it took 3 years to hack the PS3, and when it finally happened Sony tore shit up.
Good work.[/QUOTE]
No one bothered to hack it before then. Then Sony took away linux support. Then people bothered to hack it.
I still don't see what Sony is trying to do here. I understand they're trying to scare people, but threatening to go after everyone who has posted the code just makes them look silly.
Good luck in your crusade against the internet Sony.
[QUOTE=Inspector Jones;28428203]I still don't see what Sony is trying to do here. I understand they're trying to scare people, but threatening to go after everyone who has posted the code just makes them look silly.
Good luck in your crusade against the internet Sony.[/QUOTE]
They wish for world domination, one lawsuit at a time.
[editline]4th March 2011[/editline]
I wonder if Sony realizes that this whole fiasco is going to make people want to NOT buy their products.
Oh shit. Wait... Ill just change my IP!
they'll never win there is nothing illegal about this sort of hacking
Still, I don't care that my IP that i used to access their website is in possession of someone else. The fact is, they got the IPs. What the fuck guys?
Big deal, now let's see Sony try and sue half the world
Sony's being a big baby over this
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