Sony Cancels Theatrical Release for ‘The Interview’
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North Korea has threaten the US before. North Korea bluffed. US called. North Korea got nothing! Why would the US be scared of North Korea now?
This is a total marketing ploy. Don't be fooled by Sony.
These North Korean hackers are anything but malnourished. They're probably eating the same diet that Randall Park used to play Kim Jong Un.
Although this is the most blatant form if censorship, it's nothing new. Angelina Jolie's propaganda film Unbreakable is banned in Japan. Another of her propaganda films A Mighty Fart should have banned for being stinky cheese. In 2002 Dick Cheney made sure that Joaquin Phoenix's Buffalo Soldiers never saw film distribution. It cast American soldiers stationed in West Germany as degenerates.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252299/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_18
Although this is the most blatant form if censorship, it's nothing new. Angelina Jolie's propaganda film Unbreakable is banned in Japan. Another of her propaganda films A Mighty Fart should have banned for being stinky cheese. In 2002 Dick Cheney made sure that Joaquin Phoenix's Buffalo Soldiers never saw film distribution. It cast American soldiers stationed in West Germany as degenerates.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252299/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_18
What, by orchestrating the 9/11 attacks which stirred up American jingoism to such a fever pitch that it was impossible to release the movie domestically? Helluva long way to go just to delay a shitty movie. Then again, it is Dick Cheney we're talking about, so I wouldn't put it past him. (think of the lives that would have been saved if he could only have shot the film in the face!)
You mean Unbroken.
Approaching 100 million dollars of damage was done by Japan to Angelina Jolie and Jolie Pas, Legendary Pictures and 3 Arts Entertainment, not to mention University Pictures? I don't quite think so!
Looks like the kind North Koreans want to help Sony...
http://www.cbc.ca/1.2880208
good on Obama for publicly say it it was a mistake to shelve the film...BTW WTF is Sony talking about that they do not have a medium to release the film. I rent and stream movies all the time from their Sony Unlimited service and am quite happy with the quality.
http://www.cbc.ca/1.2880208
good on Obama for publicly say it it was a mistake to shelve the film...BTW WTF is Sony talking about that they do not have a medium to release the film. I rent and stream movies all the time from their Sony Unlimited service and am quite happy with the quality.
To use a movie analogy some of us are able to see that some folks wear white hats and some folks wear black hats and we know the difference.
Fuji you have no skin in the game..it easy to be a backseat driver. Like usual you are full of it.
Since your not a Sony employee and have no skin in the game...basically no risk to your family and finiancial health, and will not be suffering any finiancial loss it easy to be a back seat quarterback. Sony did the right thing it a business decision.... time to cut the lost and kill the film...bottom line they have to look after ex and current Sony employee and Sony shareholder.
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...-uglier-north-korea-wont-deny-responsibility/
Among the files released through links posted to Pastebin and now circulating on filesharing networks, according to a report by Kevin Roose of Fusion, are:
A spreadsheet including the names, birthdates, and social security numbers of 3,803 employees of Sony Pictures.
Payroll breakdowns for the entire company in a spreadsheet.
A spreadsheet detailing all the Sony Pictures employees terminated in 2014, including cause for termination; many were laid off as part of a corporate reorganization. The spreadsheet also included the termination costs for each employee, including severance and COBRA benefits.
Employee performance reviews.
Salaries for top executives—including a spreadsheet that shows that Sony Pictures’ Columbia Pictures subsidiary co-president Michael De Luca gets paid almost $1 million more than Columbia’s other co-president, Hannah Minghella.
A file directory tree of one archive obtained by Krebs shows Excel spreadsheets detailing everything from Sony Pictures’ human resources department workflow. The files include records of 401K contributions and wire transfers, payroll audits, health insurance claims and appeals—including names of employees who filed appeals on coverage decisions by Sony Pictures’ health insurer—and travel reimbursement claims.
They also include employee requests for leaves of absence, disability claims, and other documents that constitute a massive privacy breach for Sony’s employees.
Hacking tutorials, identity documents gain popularity on black market
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...ty-documents-gain-popularity-on-black-market/
Even your health records & Salary data.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/sony-breach-may-have-exposed-employee-healthcare-salary-data/
PS Even your health records....Also Phone number and Home address and date of birthdate, Social Insurance Number, spouse name, etc and basically alll your HR info record that is on bittorret site to be download for anyone.
PPS Imagine your the Sony employee victim and you find out your co-worker make more money then you and do half the amount of work you do and you deserve to make more then him/her because your smarter and better them him or her. It going to be a very bad work enivornment at Sony for all employee..since everyone know everyone how much they are making.
^ All of the sanctions lifted in 2008 should be reimposed and North Korea again placed on the terrorism blacklist.
I think he is saying it is OK for the 'good guys' to encroach on the rights of other sovereign nations, but when it is the other way around, it is an outrage.
I think people should keep an open mind and be willing to listen to all the evidence, but with a dash of healthy skepticism.
You don't think the American gov't (or any gov't) is beyond manipulation of the facts or outright lying? Didn't the CIA, American military and President all state there were weapons of mass destruction in production in Iraq, when in fact there were none in production? Wasn't the American public lead to believe that the Russians completely backed down during the Cuban missile crisis, when in fact there was a secret agreement for the US to remove missiles from Turkey that the US gov't kept secret for years?
Are we finally hearing your opinion or are you going to respond with another of your cowardly "Where did you get the idea that I consider ....".
I've always hated the white hat - black hat analogy as it's the speaker who gets to decide what side wears what hat. The US Gov't (just like the Cdn gov't) have proven they will mislead/lie to the public in an effort to protect the people in power, even if it's not in the best interests of the nation (i.e. Ont Liberal gas plant scandal). It would be easy to show that our Western gov'ts wear black often.
The Interview movie was in bad taste. Americans have already shown they won't tolerate a similar movie regarding their president (Death of a President). If N. Korea politely asked Sony to either drop the movie or make it about a fictional world leader, would Sony have agreed? Did the US State Department make the same suggestion in order to avoid un-necessary tensions? What were the N. Korean's to do? Impose sanctions on the US? Threaten war? LOL - hacking Sony and embarrassing their management turned out to be a very effective (perhaps brilliant) solution (although I still wonder if this is just a Sony marketing ploy). I'll bet the American Gov't takes advantage of this opportunity to wave the flag and increase spending on cyber military programs. I would have thought the US military, NSA and CIA would have already been monitoring IP activity out of N. Korea and China, is this yet another intelligence agency fail?
My point: Your white/black hat views are hypocritical and you've been drinking your government's kool-aid for too long. For the record, I believe the Gulf war was necessary, but not for the lies that George W used to start it.
I wonder how the US would respond if Germany starting monitoring the Obama's emails and cell phone conversations. Tit for tat.
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Don't be too hard on poor old Aardie. He just parrots what he sees on Fox News. In his world North Koreans are black hat, Saudi Arabians are white hats, every one of them, even the ones that flew the airplanes 9/11.
Is a different movie from Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
"A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall." it is the 2001 movie to which Insidious Von was referring.
