According to the moderator of the Sling forum:
More news here. Consumerist is reporting that the tipster's IP actually came from a prison IP...
http://consumerist.com/5214909/
TUAW is the one who broke the suspicious IP on their Twitter page:
http://twitter.com/tuaw
They say they got the tip yesterday as well but that the IP it came from was a govt IP in West Va that apparently is part of the block allocated to the bureau of prisons.
More also at 148Apps.com - they report this as bunk:
http://www.148apps.com/news/slingbox...umor-debunked/