Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Sony Demanding Identity Of Anyone Who Saw PS3 Jailbreak Video On YouTube

"Sony continues to massively overreact to the news that a hacker figured out how to 'jailbreak' the PS3 in order to re-enable the functionality that Sony had deleted from PS3s. Beyond getting a far overreaching gag order on George Hotz, who figured out the jailbreak, and playing Whac-a-Mole to try to take down the code anywhere it appears, the company has now asked a judge to order Google to provide the IP addresses and other identifying info of anyone who viewed or commented on the video about the jailbreak that was hosted on a private YouTube page."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110207/23320513000/sony-demanding-identity-anyone-who-saw-ps3-jailbreak-video-youtube.shtml

Mother of God.

4 comments:

  1. thats a bit ridiculous. Not even so much scary, literally just ridiculous.

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  2. It's only scary if google is actually ordered to provide the addresses of people who viewed the video. Why does google even log that?

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  3. This is really dumb of you sony..

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  4. Isn't it, though? It boggles the mind.

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