Sony Wins Subpoenas to Unmask Visitors to Geohot’s Site, YouTube Channel and Twitter

Not able to judge what Sony is trying to pull out the case against Geohot for jailbreaking PS3.  On Thursday, Sony has been granted a subpoena by a federal magistrate to acquire all the IP addresses over internet who has visited the private site of Geohot and his youtube account from January of 2009 to the present.


The report claims Sony also won subpoenas 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, handled by GeoHot. Earlier Sony has also requested to delete all data related to PS3 hacking from the internet. This came in action by Sony against Geohot, other hackers and sites that violated US copyright law by revealing how to bypass technical measures built in to the game console to run games and software not authorized by Sony.
The approved subpoena requires the company to provide all the documents reproducing all server logs, IP address logs, account information, account access records and application or registration forms related to Geohot’s site hosted by bluehost. Additionally, the Bluehost subpoena also demands any other identifying information corresponding to persons or computers who have accessed or downloaded files hosted using your service and associated which is not related to “geohot.com/jailbreak.zip” file but from the Geohot’s website.
Via the YouTube subpoena, Sony seeks information related to the video’s of the “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.”
In fourth subpoena against Twitter, demands the provide all of Hotz’s tweets, and “documents sufficient to identify all names, addresses, and telephone numbers associated with the Twitter account.”
Sony has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key. The next hearing is set for next month in San Francisco federal court in San Francisco or New Jersey.