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Pretty funky. I wonder what precedent this sets:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/media/the-interview-sony-theater-owners/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

That Hollywood can be bullied.

I mean... I get that SONY is a business, and that the Theater is still being sued by families in that Aurora Theater Mass Shooting...

But, man this sucks.

Sony probably has some of the best tech geeks and lawyers money can buy advising them to do this. Something those hackers have got has them scared silly.

Unbelievable.

 Byte wrote:
That Hollywood can be bullied.

Sony Entertainment =/= Hollywood. Not every company would respond the same way.

 djones520 wrote:
Sony probably has some of the best tech geeks and lawyers money can buy advising them to do this. Something those hackers have got has them scared silly.

Agreed. This isn't some random event by silly little hackers nor is it someone kowtowing to terrorists. There is probably a fair amount we don't know at the moment.

Seems the FBI 110% sure North Korea was involved....maybe just a smidgen...

North Korea has best movie critics.

Relapse wrote:
North Korea has best hair cuts.

Fixed....
Jebus....if NK find out how bad we talked about them we all be dead

 Jihadin wrote:
Seems the FBI 110% sure North Korea was involved....maybe just a smidgen...

The Engrish in the message the hackers left was a pretty big clue in addition to the subject matter of the film...

Personally I hate seeing people cower to threats, especially from that shambles of a nation, but I think Sony is probably scared of any potential lawsuits more than anything else.

 Ahtman wrote:


Sony Entertainment =/= Hollywood. Not every company would respond the same way.

Most major theater chains had already made the decision to pull the movie before Sony did. I might at least understand postponing or only doing midnight screenings so as not to endanger little children, (however remote that danger might be) but the level of cowardice on display here kind of turns my stomach.

 Jihadin wrote:

Relapse wrote:
North Korea has best hair cuts.

Fixed....
Jebus....if NK find out how bad we talked about them we all be dead

It is agreed, we are all joined as one throughout this crisis.


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 Jimsolo wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:


Sony Entertainment =/= Hollywood. Not every company would respond the same way.

Most major theater chains had already made the decision to pull the movie before Sony did. I might at least understand postponing or only doing midnight screenings so as not to endanger little children, (however remote that danger might be) but the level of cowardice on display here kind of turns my stomach.

Guess Sony best not make any other movie that might offend someone.

feth really wanted to see it.

Relapse wrote:
Guess Sony best not make any other movie that might offend someone.

Like the last Spider-Man movie? Or does being offensively bad not count?

 AlexHolker wrote:

Relapse wrote:
Guess Sony best not make any other movie that might offend someone.

Like the last Spider-Man movie? Or does being offensively bad not count?

That sounds like one I didn't miss much on by not going.

Relapse wrote:

Guess Sony best not make any other movie that might offend someone.

Affirm Films has offended me repeatedly.

I actually wasn't surprised at all. When I saw the trailer I thought something like this would happen.

GG

Hand over your Sony execs. You in effect surrendered to a "nation" smaller than some of our states.

Rampant cowardice.

Mitt Romney's got a good idea though. He suggested on Twitter that Sony release the film for free online, while requesting a $5 donation towards a charity.

NK are pretty nutty though, dangerous too, backward but none the less dangerous.

Some people are too damn crazy to tell if there threats or going to do it.

Though we had none of this stuff due to team america, some fat leader is a touch sensitive?

Here is an interesting article on Wired that I came across this morning. It says that they evidence that North Korea (or another nation-state) is behind the hack is circumstantial at best and all around pretty flimsy. It also discusses the idea that the hacks weren't motivated by The Interview, considering all early communication coming from the GOP to Sony Pictures made no real mention of the film. There is a chance that the film is a red herring, because the hackers didn't address it until after the media began suggesting that the film might be the reason behind the attack.

Also, the hack has pretty much devastated Sony Pictures infrastructure to an unprecedented degree.

Don't let this be the final straw. Don't let this be the point where people start censoring themselves for fear of offending anyone anywhere.

 jhe90 wrote:
NK are pretty nutty though, dangerous too, backward but none the less dangerous.

Some people are too damn crazy to tell if there threats or going to do it.

Though we had none of this stuff due to team america, some fat leader is a touch sensitive?

How are they dangerous? What even remote threat does NK pose to anyone in the west?!

The correct response to this should be to openly mock the ridiculous NK regime and its claims to have any significance in modern matters and if they were indeed responsible for the hack, to completely cut their access to the international internet infrastructures.

And "devastating cyber attack"?! Really? All that the hackers did was the business equivalent of "the fappening", was that also considered a "devastating cyber attack"?

PhantomViper wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:
NK are pretty nutty though, dangerous too, backward but none the less dangerous.

Some people are too damn crazy to tell if there threats or going to do it.

Though we had none of this stuff due to team america, some fat leader is a touch sensitive?

How are they dangerous? What even remote threat does NK pose to anyone in the west?!

The correct response to this should be to openly mock the ridiculous NK regime and its claims to have any significance in modern matters and if they were indeed responsible for the hack, to completely cut their access to the international internet infrastructures.

And "devastating cyber attack"?! Really? All that the hackers did was the business equivalent of "the fappening", was that also considered a "devastating cyber attack"?

Information is power and money is power. Both of those can be very damaging, and at this point the hacker known as Kim 4Jong Un has both of those when it comes to Sony.

NK is powerless against "the west" as far as conventional threats are concerned. But NK, and any cyber criminal that is sophisticated enough, can be a big threat against companies and other organizations when it comes to hacks like this.

 whembly wrote:
....and that the Theater is still being sued by families in that Aurora Theater Mass Shooting...

You what? People are suing the cinema chain over that? Is it just me or is that symptomatic of a litigious culture out of control?

 LuciusAR wrote:

 whembly wrote:
....and that the Theater is still being sued by families in that Aurora Theater Mass Shooting...

You what? People are suing the cinema chain over that? Is it just me or is that symptomatic of a litigious culture out of control?

Can sue a Ham Sandwich here

I dunno. I want to see the movie, and I hate letting North Korea essentially have a veto over US moviemaking.

On the other hand, if I were Sony and released the movie despite clear public threats, and something did happen, I'd be pretty concerned about the liability, especially on a movie that was unlikely to have a huge box office return anyway. Making brave choices doesn't equate here to making profitable choices.

Well that's the big movie chains and Sony pictures proving terrorism actually works well

expect to see lots more of this targeting of American cinema chains and movie studios in general in future since they've backed down so spectacularly

I'm sure the Islamic terrorists are watching with interest too

perhaps the actors and movie industry workers and even cinema goers should consider a boycott of Sony and the movie chains until the film IS released

 LuciusAR wrote:

 whembly wrote:
....and that the Theater is still being sued by families in that Aurora Theater Mass Shooting...

You what? People are suing the cinema chain over that? Is it just me or is that symptomatic of a litigious culture out of control?

I guess the Aurora theater didn't put up enough signs telling psychotic mass murderers to leave their guns at home

PhantomViper wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:
NK are pretty nutty though, dangerous too, backward but none the less dangerous.

Some people are too damn crazy to tell if there threats or going to do it.

Though we had none of this stuff due to team america, some fat leader is a touch sensitive?

How are they dangerous? What even remote threat does NK pose to anyone in the west?!

The correct response to this should be to openly mock the ridiculous NK regime and its claims to have any significance in modern matters and if they were indeed responsible for the hack, to completely cut their access to the international internet infrastructures.

And "devastating cyber attack"?! Really? All that the hackers did was the business equivalent of "the fappening", was that also considered a "devastating cyber attack"?

so a phycopathic leader with nukes, 1 million man army and thousands of guns zeroed and calculated to fire on SK. the capital is range of the heavier units.
missiles which can reach pearl harbour and parts of Alaska.

who gets all in a twist over one film, there was not this much trouble over Team America,