i'm just going to leave this here due to what has transpired due to a new Seth Rogan, James Franco comedy film has made Sony Pictures hacked with a lot of things..
I don't think it was just any "kid".So much for The Interview. The top 5 movie theaters in the country (AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Carmike, Cineplex) has dropped out of showing it, signaling to the rest of the world that some kid with a computer, which is most likely who the hacker is, can control whatever they want.
And now, Sony has cancelled the release altogether.
Yep, many theatres refused to screen it amid fears of being hacked themselves.
Which is such nonsense. I guess now we live in a world where I can tweet "hey, don't screen that Star Trek movie" and the movie won't get played. Also, if you have better security than Sony did (passwords located in a folder named "passwords" isn't security, btw) than a hack threat shouldn't be too much of a concern.
And what if Sony had released the movie and something had happened? What would your opinion be of them then? The fact is, even if the threats are harmless, some lunatic still could plan some sort of attack and just blame the hacks or use that as motive. People are crazy, why encourage them?
And what if Sony had released the movie and something had happened? What would your opinion be of them then? The fact is, even if the threats are harmless, some lunatic still could plan some sort of attack and just blame the hacks or use that as motive. People are crazy, why encourage them?
It was also just stated that senior intelligence officials say that North Korea was centrally involved in the hack...not just a kid on a computer. So there is some validity to the pull. I personally think that it's an overreaction, by the way, but I can see where the studio is coming from.
Then why do anything, really? This is a dumb argument and I'm just done.
What are you talking about..? It's a liability thing. It covers Sony in case of an accident. Remember when the shooting happened at the Dark Knight Rises? Imagine that happening, only this time someone comes after Sony for being "negligent" or irresponsible or something like that. Slim chance, yes...but I take it you don't know much about insuring large companies if you think that that's "dumb".
And who was liable for that tragedy? The wackjob kid who had guns (....I'm having flashbacks from the Machine Gun America thread. Abort, abort!)
WB was not responsible for that. Nolan was not responsible for that. The movie theater was not responsible. We all blamed the kid. If something like that happened again, we, being logical people, would blame the person who did it, not the film studio.
I don't think Sony would have pulled it if the theaters themselves didn't tell them they weren't going to screen it. I think once you lose a huge percentage of your potential revenue, you are better off pulling back and regrouping.
I'm a little surprised they pulled it alltogether after Homeland Security said the threats weren't credible, but whatever's best for safety.
Actually, the FBI is now saying that North Korea was involved...maybe still not credible but not some kid in his basement either.
There is also the fact that whoever did this, clearly hacked into Sony's stuff and who knows what other info they have. They might have stuff that would wreck Sony as a company or personally embarrass the decision makers. If thats the case, they might think that pulling the movie might be the only avenue they have to prevent the worst stuff from coming out.