"The Interview" Scrapped. The Terrorists Win.

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kingofsp

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Pussy. Don't negotiate with terrorists! This will be the end of Sony pictures.
 
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Franco and Rogen were being the most cheeky bastards.. appearing on all sorts of random shows to promote their new movie.
Assholes were even on Epic Mealtime when my little cousin made me sit through that shit.

I wonder where it will end up, Netflix maybe?
 
It's bullshit. But so is all the times US movies have edited their films because China didn't like something in it. So is the time that South Park edited out the prophet Mohammed when they got threatened. Freedom of speech has been losing out a long time.

For fucks sake, if we're going to be censored.. it should be by our own government like it's supposed to be!
 
Usually when you try to stop people (especially kids) from doing something, it makes them do it super hard. So I'm guessing Redbox rentals or whatever the hell non-pirating people do these days is going to go through the roof.
 
Everybody is scared these days. Shit is getting ridiculous.

Probably a good time to buy stock in security companies? AmIrite?

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FEAR!!!
 
Fools don't realise that it's all an elaborate marketing scheme!

Worked though - many people talking about it online etc.
 
microphone head said:
Fools don't realise that it's all an elaborate marketing scheme!

Worked though - many people talking about it online etc.
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Nah, I don't believe that for a second. More harm came from the e-mail leaks alone than Sony would have benefited from. I don't have faith in a 50-year old marketing exec being able to translate this elaborate hoax over to his IT department and then following execution, publicly hire a security forensics team and expect to get one over on them as well.

It's a nice thought, but I'm not about to give Sony that much credit.
 
Unfortunately, the hackers leaked gigabytes of data and guess what... they also leaked the attachment they had sent to Sony as example which needs to be cut out.
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According to Wired, this is all bullshit.

Nation-state attacks aren’t generally as noisy, or announce themselves with an image of a blazing skeleton posted to infected computers, as occurred in the Sony hack. Nor do they use a catchy nom-de-hack like Guardians of Peace to identify themselves. Nation-state attackers also generally don’t chastise their victims for having poor security, as purported members of GoP have done in media interviews. Nor do such attacks involve posts of stolen data to Pastebin—the unofficial cloud repository of hackers—where sensitive company files belonging to Sony have been leaked. These are all hallmarks of hacktivists—groups like Anonymous and LulzSec, who thrive on targeting large corporations for ideological reasons or just the lulz, or by hackers sympathetic to a political cause.

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But in their initial public statement, whoever hacked Sony made no mention of North Korea or the film. And in an email sent to Sony by the hackers, found in documents they leaked, there is also no mention of North Korea or the film. The email was sent to Sony executives on Nov. 21, a few days before the hack went public. Addressed to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, Chairwoman Amy Pascal and other executives, it appears to be an attempt at extortion, not an expression of political outrage or a threat of war.

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It was only on December 8, after a week of media stories connecting North Korea and the Sony film to the hack, that the attackers made their first reference to the film in one of their public announcements.
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The real reason Sony pulled the movie probably had zero to do with the threat of a terrorist attack, and more likely revolved around either an agreement to regain control of some of their far more valuable IP that had been compromised, or possibly to prevent the release of some very damaging information that could significantly harm the company. It looks like they opted to eat the short term losses rather than risk long term, heavier damage. The whole idea of North Korean terrorists is fucking ridiculous, and it's odd how many people take that at face value.
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
The real reason Sony pulled the movie probably had zero to do with the threat of a terrorist attack, and more likely revolved around either an agreement to regain control of some of their far more valuable IP that had been compromised, or possibly to prevent the release of some very damaging information that could significantly harm the company. It looks like they opted to eat the short term losses rather than risk long term, heavier damage. The whole idea of North Korean terrorists is fucking ridiculous, and it's odd how many people take that at face value.
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You never know how these nutters over in north korea might react to the whole thing, they even demanded the british government apologize because a barber shop in london posted a picture of kim jung uns face taglined "bad hair day?"

Plus the sony hq is in japan, in any case they have more to worry about than their hollywood execs. Tbh I'd have a hard time laughing at this shit knowing how serious the situation is over there and the way they treat people, their prisoners are worse off than the poorest africans.



Edit: I've never been to the region but remember someone saying the north korean army could level seoul in a single day if they ever made it through the border. Add decades of brainwashing to that and soldiers whose only purpose in life is to defend their country' "honor", I don't think anyone wants to start a war with them over some petty bullshit.
 
Personally I don't think it was a big marketing scheme but I think someone took advantage of the situation and spun it better. Sony probably hired a lot more consultants/PR team to help the situation.
 
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