Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbreaking Site
Found on Wired on Friday, 04 March 2011
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.
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."
Sony has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key. It is seeking unspecified damages from Hotz.
That already worked so well with DeCSS. Sony needs to realize that once the information is out, it's out. Despite what ridiculous laws like the DMCA may say, I still believe that you should be allowed to do whatever you want with whatever you bought. With all those actions, Sony will stay on my "do not buy" list for a long time.