| buglebum said: 1. An IP is enough to locate you personally - IP address is used to contact ISP who have your details. Most people have dynamic IPs but this is irrelevent, each IP you have temporarily used can be traced personally back to you. 2. I live in the UK and can tell you right now the police would have to go through a whole lot of "obtaining permission" - JUST TO GET AN IP!!!!! Getting a suspected terrorists IP is part of obtaining the rights to track them - in the UK the police would need THE SAME amount of evidence to do either.
So the point is that a court giving Sony the right to those IPs is scandelous because in the UK at least, you can't get that sort of thing without some serious (think rapemurderterrorismorganised fraud) reasons. |
1. can be traced back by your ISP. Sony didnt subpoena ISP providers. They arent going to gather the personal info of the IP users.
2. Sony did go through "obtaining permision". The act of Geohot is clear as water, no reason for the judge not to accept. Same thing would happen if you claim on the internet that you have a marijuana grow room and the police ask for a warrant. Though, I agree that distributing jailbreaking material of a gaming system on the internet for thousands to download is a gray zone of our current legal system. It will be clarified, which is a good thing, people are starting to think they can do what they want on the internet.
The rest of your post goes to show that you dont know what the subpoena is about:
"Tuesday's order by US Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero said the information subject to Sony's subpoena “shall be provided on an Attorneys' Eyes Only basis” and is limited to information relating to whether Hotz has enough ties to Northern California to be sued in federal court in that district."
I dont understand why your loosing your time being alarmist and paranoiac agaisnt this simple legal case. Personally, im loosing my time replying to you because I dont like obvious misinformation.
