This can't be true. Perhaps Sony doesn't know how IP addresses work?
Dear Sony,
I'll save you the trouble, because Google won't give you that info even if they still had it: My current exterior IP is 172.168.1.250... I don't know if that's what it was when I watched the video or if it will be the same in 4-5 hours, but go ahead and ban that from your PSN. That's actually the IP to the T1 modem on this floor of my apartment building I think...it's hard to tell with all the layers I'm behind... It's not static anyway and the whole system reboots every night.
Best of luck,
A Non-customer
I suppose I'll concede the point that despite Geohot being an ass, Sony is a bigger ass. I still don't believe geohot was completely right to do what he did, but I suppose Sony could just ban anyone that takes advantage of it from the PSN (along with anyone that watched the video). That solves the major issues I have with this hack. The only thing that convinced me of this was the fact that x88x actually will need that info when he makes the PS3-based-beer-fetching-multi-movie-bot that he promised and is so excited about:
Originally Posted by x88x