Very cute. If sony has trouble putting down one hacker, they'll have a lot of trouble when the backlash really starts.

My point stands. If Sony hadn't antagonized the crowds and fanned the flames they would never have gotten themselves into this predicament. They've been reduced to chasing after individual hackers which only seems to spark more hackers to the cause. 

ugh.. horrible that some company is invading our privacy like that..

but but but... i only watched his rap video! and now i am a criminal? (

I don't think Sony would be dumb enough to go that far, this is been blown waay out of proportion.

While I am actually extremely against this as I feel that there is a lot of potential for abuse, I am also certain that Sony will not use the data here as 'key evidence' of hacking to instigate chain legal actions against other pirates or people that visit his site (perhaps other distributor but not pirates).

As stated in the original post, they want this evidence to prove that GeoHotz was a distributor. That being said, and I've stated this in the previous post. What they do with the data after this is.... uncertain... and that is something I do NOT like.

Sony has demonstrated that they have no respect for people's rights in the past, so why would anyone be surprised that they're willing to ignore people's rights today?

You have to remember that this is a company that installed a root kit on people’s computer if they tried to listen to their legally purchased CD on their computer. This act didn't stop a hacker from ripping these CDs and putting them onto the internet, but it did mess up countless people's computers who were actually using their legally purchased CD in a legitimate way.

wow, everybody is blowing this out of proportion.  First off, SONY is right.  Second off Geohotz and all the hackers are wrong, yet you all try to defend yourselves as being innocent. Stealing is not innocent.  THird off, Sony is getting the ip addresses to prove that people are using his hack to steal games. Comments and videos will definitely prove this that people is using his hack to steal.  They are not banning ip addresses just because you watched a video on youtube, however, sony may use those ip addresses to track those people to make sure youre not using a hack on your ps3

I hate it when people say if you stop hacker's,another one will just pop up. If that's the case,why bother putting away criminals,rapist,drug dealer's. I mean there just going to get replaced buy someone else right? So just let chaos ensue and go unchecked right? 

Open the donations again pleas!

I don't care if people agree or disagree with the people cracking the PS3, getting all those IP addresses feels like shakey ground here.

Like Sony's past actions or the actions of those such as the RIAA can be trusted. I wouldn't put it past them to want to fine those who might have glanced at that content.