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A US federal magistrate judge has ruled that Sony haw see the identities of anyone who visited the website of PlayStation 3 jailbreak hacker martyr Hotz since Jan 2009, Wired reports.

Hotz â€" a renowned 21-year-old hacker, famous for his iPhone jailbreaks, who goes by the handle GeoHot â€" has been accused of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for hacking the Sony PS3 in a artefact that allows users to install whatever code they same on the normally-closed device. After completing the jailbreak hack, Hotz publicised an encryption key and code tools on his website, providing anyone with the effectuation to recreate the grapple on their possess PS3.

The subpoena, issued by Magistrate carpenter Spero of San Francisco, requires Bluehost, which hosts geohot.com, to wage Sony with “documents reproducing all computer logs, IP address logs, statement information, statement admittance records and application or entrance forms” attendant to Hotz’s website. This includes “any another identifying aggregation corresponding to persons or computers who hit accessed or downloaded files hosted using your service and related with the www.geohot.com website, including but not restricted to the geohot.com/jailbreak.zip file.”

Additional subpoenas wage Sony the right to admittance aggregation from YouTube most anyone who watched a recording showing the Hotz jailbreak in action, or only commented on the video. Google staleness hand over logs attendant to Hotz’s Blogger.com blog, and Twitter staleness also relinquish some aggregation attendant to Hotz’s tweets, including “documents sufficient to identify all names, addresses, and telephone numbers related with the Twitter account.”

Sony’s reasons for requesting much a wide-reaching writ are digit fold: First, they poverty to show how pervasive Hotz’s PS3 jailbreak is. And second, they poverty to wage grounds that a large sort of grouping in Federal Calif. downloaded the jailbreak file, which would help reassert them suing Hotz in San Francisco kinda his home-state of New Jersey.

Technology rights advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) feature the subpoenas are likewise far-reaching.

â€Å"I conceive the these subpoenas, the aggregation they seek, is inappropriate,â€

Sony says Hotz’s jailbreak has helped grouping run pirated copies of games, which is one of their direct reasons for filing the lawsuit. Hotz contends that his jailbreak was cursive in much a artefact as to thwart pirates as much as possible.

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