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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 allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) raises a host of web-privacy concerns.

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 subpoenas (.pdf) for data from YouTube and Google, as part of its lawsuit against the 21-year-old New Jersey hacker, as well as Twitter account data linked to Hotz, who goes by the handle GeoHot.

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[vampirechronicles]

so going to a website automatically means your a criminal, and also an infringer, please!
what about kids surfing the web all the time and happened to go to that site, they are criminals too.
what about grandma, who may be 75 and have Alzheimer's. ok i forgot how to spell* and surfs to that site, and clicks on the link and downloads it by mistake.
so retarted.
so what if someone visits a site, hey they can have my ip address i have nothing to hide.
this is ridickless *ridiculous* did i spell that right now?'
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crazy ass shit
hmm

[RacknRail]

Spelling looks good to me