Sony to get PS3 hacking PayPal records - Wired News (blog)

A federal magistrate said that Sony PlayStation's PayPal account can 3 hacker George Hotz, subpoena as the GameMaker to his civil suit against the man ratchets, four-year history published the first full PS3 jailbreak in the console.

On Tuesday came two weeks after judge Joseph Spero in San Francisco Sony the right granted to purchase in the Internet IP addresses who Hotz's further had visited website from January 2009. Sony has also won the subpoenas for data of YouTube and Google, as with Hotz, who handle the GeoHot is also Twitter account data in the context.

For its iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak respected, the 21-year-old New Jersey man is accused that violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws published an encryption key according to its website and software, the tools allow PlayStation owners, complete control over their consoles of the firmware on to win by. Hotz has complied with a court order and removed the hack.

The latest development allows the Japanese console maker acquires "Documents Sufficientto identify the source of funds (.pdf) in California, the geohot@gmail.com assigned in each PayPal account for the period January 1, 2009, 1 February 2011, was" ruled Spero.

The information sought is part of a legal argument about whether Sony Hotz in his home state of New Jersey held in San Francisco, where Sony should rather sue.

Reference to the PayPal account, Sony claims Hotz has accepted donations for the score of people residing in Northern California - an argument that, if true, could make a correct venue of dispute San Francisco.

He denies Hotz accepts donations. Sony, which has threatened to sue anyone, the hacking tools or the encryption key posts, seeking unspecified damages from Hotz.

The DMCA prohibits trade with the so called "circumvention devices" developed, crack to copy protection schemes. The law can however requires no Sony prove that Hotz received the payment for the hack that was designed, run to PlayStation 3 owners the possibility, homemade software or alternative operating systems such as Linux.

It builds on a number of previous Jailbreaks which unlocked less protected layers of PlayStation authentication process. Jailbreaking a console is also a prerequisite for pirated games do.

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