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Sony is threatening to take legal action against anyone who distributes or posts the key used to hack PS3s. To further their point that they aren't messing around Sony has also gone after YouTube and are seeking "All information and documents related to the use of your service(s) to host the content associated with and/or comprising the video titled "Jail broken PS3 3.55 with Homebrew", posted by user "geohot" and located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U kLSXsCKDkg." (The video is no longer on YouTube.) Sony is now hoping a federal judge will demand Google to release the names, addresses, IP address logs and any other information of anyone who has commented or even simply seen the video.
This latest batch of paperwork filed by Sony comes as they are gearing up to take 21-year-old hacker George Hotz to court. Hotz, better known as GeoHot, posted a How-To video for unlocking the PS3 using a key. The key was discovered by a hacker collective known as fail0verflow. The code enables players to bypass Sony's security settings enabling the use of custom firmware and playing pirated games.
Sony is requesting this information so they can send "a [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] notice to remove the material and, if necessary, seek appropriate relief from this court.” There's no word yet if Sony plans to prosecute their own VP Kevin Butler after he unknowingly retweeted the key to every one of his 70,000+ followers. The tweet has since been deleted.
Sony is also seeking legal action against the hacker group fail0verflow but is having trouble finding the members' identities and whereabouts. In hopes of finding these members Sony is making a similar request to Twitter; demanding the personal information of suspected accounts.
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they will never get this info in a timely matter. by the time they do, everyone will be moved on to the PS4.
This latest batch of paperwork filed by Sony comes as they are gearing up to take 21-year-old hacker George Hotz to court. Hotz, better known as GeoHot, posted a How-To video for unlocking the PS3 using a key. The key was discovered by a hacker collective known as fail0verflow. The code enables players to bypass Sony's security settings enabling the use of custom firmware and playing pirated games.
Sony is requesting this information so they can send "a [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] notice to remove the material and, if necessary, seek appropriate relief from this court.” There's no word yet if Sony plans to prosecute their own VP Kevin Butler after he unknowingly retweeted the key to every one of his 70,000+ followers. The tweet has since been deleted.
Sony is also seeking legal action against the hacker group fail0verflow but is having trouble finding the members' identities and whereabouts. In hopes of finding these members Sony is making a similar request to Twitter; demanding the personal information of suspected accounts.
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they will never get this info in a timely matter. by the time they do, everyone will be moved on to the PS4.
