Judge Allows Sony to Unmask Anybody Who Visited GeoHot Site

[signz]

With this information, they can track down every single person who viewed the video and somehow get you thrown in jail for watching a youtube video.



THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
THIS IS FUCKING MADNESS

THIS IS SPARTA!!! *kick*

But no, seriously. WTF?!
Just because they have the money, they can get what they want... :|
What'll happen next? Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft wanting the IPs of those people who googled anything about piracy, ROMs/ISOs or something similar from google?

 

[GundamXXX]

Its like the police putting camera's in your house because they might find something out about someone else

Yeah, one time my home had like seventy five cameras installed in it just because Dad was a cop and this guy was killing criminals and this weird other guy thought that one of the cops might be doing it, even though they thought he probably wasn't.

lol

Point proven!

 

[Giga_Gaia]

So basically, if you have watched a youtube video about something that might've interested you, even if you have not jailbroken your PS3, even if you don't OWN a PS3, Sony knows who you are.

To find out who you are from your IP, Sony need the informations directly from your ISP. Thank god my ISP never gives out personal informations. So Sony won't ever know who I am.

 

[RegulusGG]

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.”

Isn't Sony wonderful?

 

[Wintrale]

If LG can seize all of Sony's PS3s in Europe just because they play Blurays, there's no reason for Sony not to be able to get the IP addresses of everyone that is helping to ruin the PS3.

 

[IchigoK2031]

Me and my friend were discussing this. We think this may be of concern to people who actually own PS3's but for others, it is most likely a scare tactic, basically to stop the further spread of the keys or anything.

 

[amptor]

Assuming I visited either of those addresses (I never saw the youtube one), a lot of good it will really do them. I don't even own a Playstation 3 console. lol. And my friends that do don't hack theirs. That console should be regarded as a good door stop though since my friends don't even use them. Not sure why they bought it.

 

[Evo.lve]

Exactly.

Even if I did visit geohot.com (which I have) then it's a "ZOMG THIS GUY DOESN'T LIKE US".

Go ahead, Sony. Ban me from PSN. Do it.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

If LG can seize all of Sony's PS3s in Europe just because they play Blurays, there's no reason for Sony not to be able to get the IP addresses of everyone that is helping to ruin the PS3.

That is probably the dumbest post I have ever read on this entire site. No joke. That's like me saying

"If McDonalds can use beef from cows just because they make burgers, there's no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to go out and steal someones credit card."

 

[The Catboy]

I have visited the site several times, I follow Geohot on Facebook, and watched all his videos, but I don't own a PS3...what are they going to do to me?
Send me a mean letter telling me I shouldn't visit a public site and watch public videos?

 

[Evo.lve]

Maybe a notice saying that they banned a PSN account called "A Gay Little Ca1boy?"

 

[Omega_2]

So basically, if you have watched a youtube video about something that might've interested you, even if you have not jailbroken your PS3, even if you don't OWN a PS3, Sony knows who you are.

To find out who you are from your IP, Sony need the informations directly from your ISP. Thank god my ISP never gives out personal informations. So Sony won't ever know who I am.

It's called an assload of money, and a lack of souls

 

[The Catboy]

Maybe a notice saying that they banned a PSN account called "A Gay Little Ca1boy?"

Well he shouldn't have almost stolen my screen name.

 

[Nollog]

lol.
Knew their money would win the day.

Same with the guilty verdict on George in a few months or next year.

 

[jonesman99]

Privacy is now only for those who afford it. Which would mean that 98% or the world cannot have it.

With all the pokemon madness sweeping the rest of the world, I haven't been keeping up with this.

So now, Sony has IP addresses of tens of thousands of people who watched and commented on his videos and his site, the basis of that whole collection is to prove how it affected them in a negative way. Even then, there are variables that both sides have to take into account for when it comes to view count and comment posts.

Sony has been given a pass, if they want to win they better know what to do with it. If Hotz truly wants to win, him and his lawyers have to look into those variables, and prove how it little of an effect his and other parts of his CFW had when it came to piracy on the PS3.

One last thing: He said that his CFW was not meant for piracy, if that is the case then the 3rd party investigators need to know what part of the data in his CFW would or could be associated with homebrew, and whether or not someone else input code to enable piracy with it.

 

[Giga_Gaia]

So basically, if you have watched a youtube video about something that might've interested you, even if you have not jailbroken your PS3, even if you don't OWN a PS3, Sony knows who you are.

To find out who you are from your IP, Sony need the informations directly from your ISP. Thank god my ISP never gives out personal informations. So Sony won't ever know who I am.

It's called an assload of money, and a lack of souls

ISP don't give private informations here, doesn't matter if you have money or not.

Only exception is if you download child pornography.

Beside, modifying software is legal here, so no matter what you do to your ps3, Sony can't touch you.

 

[Diffusion]

So reading national secrets on wikileaks is no problemo but reading a company's secrets is...

 

[Vigilante]

I am sure Sony just paid the judge

 

[gamefan5]

Using anti-privacy to promote anti-piracy. Kind of ironic isn't?

 

[omatic]

They're going to use the info to build a larger case against certain people - if this is all they have on you, that you visited GeoHot's website (regardless of how often), then you don't have anything to worry about.

Still, I really don't like the judge's decision. If I wanted everyone to know what I do online and where I do it, I'd use my real name, or clearly identify myself. This order gives the impression that visiting the site is wrong somehow.