The trial between Sony, geohot and the failoverfl0w team continues and the company's lawyers amaze everyone asking in court for geohot's personal information from YouTube along with data about the people who saw the video clips in which the PS3 jailbreak solution was presented. The company wants to know how many users watched those videos, their usernames, and all the IP addresses of the people who posted comments on those videos. Sony's lawyers also requested from Twitter the information of all failoverfl0s members, so we are only talking about an e-mail address and the IP address used by them to access the account. Sony wants this information to identify people who may have the software developed by the failoverfl0w team and to prevent its distribution.
SCEA has demanded that YouTube surrender not only information for Hotz's account where his jailbreak video was posted, but also how many users accessed the video, the usernames of those with access to the video, and all usernames and IP addresses of everyone who posted or published comments to the void. In addition to hitting up YouTube for dirt, Wired reports that Sony has demanded Twitter hand over the personal info of fail0verflow's members — we're waiting for Sony's lawyers to don TSA gear as the next step in their search.
To be honest, I was amazed when I read the news and unfortunately these could be the first steps towards the illegalization of jailbreak. In the USA, jailbreaking is legal, but considering the actions that Sony takes to protect its products, many will probably think twice before making another jailbreak solution for PS2, at least. For the iPhone, the jailbreak is currently legal, but if Sony wins the case in the end, then Apple could be encouraged to take similar measures.
