In the latest from the fronts of the ongoing legal drama between Sony and PS3 hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz, a federal magistrate has granted the company rights to subpoena Hotz’s PayPal account.
This development is part of a complicated jurisdictional dispute, and may determine whether Hotz is prosecuted in his state of New Jersey, or Sony’s preferred venue in California. Basically, it’s just admin. Nobody’s even accused anybody else of sleeping with other people yet.
According to the order, Sony may now acquire “documents sufficient to identify the source of funds (.pdf) in California that went into any PayPal account associated with [email protected] for the period of January 1, 2009, to February 1, 2011.”
Hotz maintains that he did not receive any monetary donations for the console’s jailbreak from people in California. If this proves false, Sony will be able to press for litigation there instead.
Hotz stands accused of breaching the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and rapping badly, among other things.
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