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lol.

Seems that Sony tried to obtain the IPs and personal info from everyone that posted, commented, or viewed a video on hacking your PS3 on youtube. Luckily a Judge was smart enough to shoot it down...

 

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http://www.maxconsole.net/content.php?44490-Sony-demanding-YouTube-hands-over-IP-addresses-over-PS3-hack-video-viewers&s=a262069814a0d2e36ace7ec43a1829e8&&page=2#comments



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Lol, now that's just damn irrational.



While I support Sonys conquest in burning the hackers and stabbing them with stakes. This is the wrong method. People could have watched those videos just to watch without ever having any intention in actually hacking. There are better methods Sony. Start banning people from PSN, and hey disable their PS3 for kicks. :)



Didn't Microsoft ban people from going to xbox live on their consoles once caught cheating/hacking?

Sony should to do something like that.



Don86 said:

Didn't Microsoft ban people from going to xbox live on their consoles once caught cheating/hacking?

Sony should to do something like that.


They banned people's gamertags from xbl. And then they locked them out of their hard drives when they were caught pirating.

Banning a PSN ID is kind of useless and a hard drive is easy enough to replace on the PS3...



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Sony is a very entertaining company, and as much as I like their products, I hope the pirates and hackers win with every silly move sony makes. 



 

so the judge is protecting hackers and in effect stopping sony from annoying them in their work.

lets say this was to do with drugs, would the judge stop the police from searching for them? NO, so why when it comes to cyber criminals they are given a wall of protection?

the judge should be sued.....if you can do that?



fps_d0minat0r said:

so the judge is protecting hackers and in effect stopping sony from annoying them in their work.

lets say this was to do with drugs, would the judge stop the police from searching for them? NO, so why when it comes to cyber criminals they are given a wall of protection?

the judge should be sued.....if you can do that?


Two problems with your statement. 1. You are comparing people who were commenting in a videos to drug DEALERS not drug users. 

2. Judges do stop police from searching individuals, if the judge finds the claim to have no reasonable ground, and JUDGE WOULD NEVER SIGN OFF ON DRUG USERS (On that basis alone).



 

fps_d0minat0r said:

so the judge is protecting hackers and in effect stopping sony from annoying them in their work.

lets say this was to do with drugs, would the judge stop the police from searching for them? NO, so why when it comes to cyber criminals they are given a wall of protection?

the judge should be sued.....if you can do that?


I've commented on a Youtube video about a PS3 hack. I'm no hacker... Why should Sony get my personal info?



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How about Sony start putting out PS3 Disc's with nothing on them, that would stop piracy.