If Sony Hack Wanted to Stop 'The Interview' Release, It Worked
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It is the fault of the people threatening violence against moviegoers.
edit: I'm not commenting on the overly litigious culture of the US or easily panicked mentality over any threat. Those are fair critiques of the US. However, both of those would be moot if it were not for a credible threat of violence from some person/group. This philosophy of culpability pre-dates the US legal system.
Did you know that if you graduate from med school in Canada, they advise you not to step forward if you're on a US flight and someone asks if there's a doctor on the plane?
Because you'll get sued.
"The Aviation Medical Assistance Act of 1998 ensures that if you're flying in the United States, even if the airline is not owned by a U.S. company, you have Good Samaritan protection."[1]
I also found one article interviewing a doctor who answered the call who mentioned that no physician has been successfully sued for assisting in an inflight medical emergency.[2] A claim that he actually backs up with a citation.[3]
[1] http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0400/p37.html
[2] http://www.cockeyed.com/personal/doctor_airplane/doctor_airp...
The US needs a more sane legal system and the world needs an appreciation of higher quality software systems, made more slowly and carefully.
EDIT: "made more slowly and carefully" is more specific and simplified than I needed there, feel free to ignore it...
They're taking orders from terrorists, and it's a calculated decision.
If I say it's their fault for getting hacked for making the movie, that is victim blaming. This is just disappointment.
It was a made up story to cover up their shitty security.
Still, crazy how much of a shit storm this has created!
North Korea will never bomb an American theater, unless they developed a suicidal urge for sudden and forceful "liberation".
Maybe, given the hyperbolic rhetoric they are fond of using, they might feel perfectly OK threatening to unleash "a sea of fire" on the US, but I doubt even North Koreans are taking these expressions seriously.
Honestly, I would've made the same call.
- North Korea is not that technologically sophisticated (at least compared to China or Russia, for example).
- North Korea has very limited internet access in general.
- It is highly likely the few internet pipes NK has are being heavily monitored.
- NK has bigger fish to fry, frankly. They can easily control this movie within their borders and they've ignored previous movies that made fun of them (World Police?).
If it is a NK supporter or supporters I doubt they're located physically within NK. But I suspect this was just a random hacker who decided to blame it on NK/the movie for the lolz.
Simply because the alternative is that a small group of semi-sophisticated non-state backed hackers could also pull if off. To say that NK can't acquire or won't utilize similar capabilities is a bit naive.
What we need is evidence that it wasn't NK than even more endless conjecture here.
See also "In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite"
http://recode.net/2014/12/07/in-north-korea-hackers-are-a-ha...
Now, I would not be surprised if they had help from China, but I really doubt NK did this themselves.
I think the accusations are being levelled at the NK government not some rouge civilian hackers.
Admittedly, I don't have evidence to suggest this, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a publicity stunt.
Edit: I'm not claiming the hack was a publicity stunt, I'm claiming that I wouldn't be surprised if the cancelation of the movie was a publicity stunt.
This is almost legendary PR to have for a film, despite the big cost of the hack (for which it will still no doubt be net negative).
P.S. Actual article title: "Sony cancels The Interview release amid threats"
Unless of course, you are suggesting that North Korea (accused) is infringing on your freedom of speech. In that case, maybe we can organize a sit-in or something.
I think that Judd Apatow and Jimmy Kimmel said it best on twitter..
"I think it is disgraceful that these theaters are not showing The Interview. Will they pull any movie that gets an anonymous threat now?" - Judd Apatow
" @JuddApatow I agree wholeheartedly. An un-American act of cowardice that validates terrorist actions and sets a terrifying precedent." - Jimmy Kimmel
This movie has unleashed a massive hack upon your company. Tons of damage has been done.
Now the hackers say releasing the movie is going to result in violence against movie theaters that show it. Logically you know this can't happen, but there is certainly a chance some psycho acting on his own behalf could attack a screening after all the publicity this has generated.
Do you take the chance of releasing a mid-budget stoner comedy knowing that you will ultimately be held responsible if some crazy dude attacks a theater?
Sony needs to grow some balls, this is growing into a complete and utter joke. This is the entire problem with the world right now complete and utter risk aversion, red tape and politics.
If i was the CEO of sony, I would not dumb down the death scene, I would make it more extreme, I would edit the film and add recent events into it along with some dialogue that says "Screw North Korea, screw The guardians of peace", as the credits roll up there would be a scene with some computer geeks, a "guardians of peace banner" and something amusingly horrible happening to them all, like being annally rapped to death by a pack of gorillas while trying to hack into the sony website from there underground hacking bunker.
After the credits, maybe a crying Seth Rogen after he discovers the true damage that the guardians of peace have done... they have deleted is midget porn collection!!!
I would do my upmost to get it in every theatre in the world that could and any chain that refused to show it, I would withdraw rights for them to show future big Sony releases, because basically screw them. If they're not willing to have the balls to be awesome, then they aren't important enough to have anything else.
This is a joke, oh no... someone read some emails and leaked them on the internet... on no there is a movie script or two and some unrealised movies. Oh noes they hacked our network, BIG ing deal.. nobody cares, it makes no difference to anyone. Sony just got frapped and went crying to mommy. Sony come out of this looking pathetic, I will avoid this brand in the future unless they do something more awesome soon.
Because more guns is always a key to reducing violence...
And statistics back me up, the number of people in the US killed in terrorist attacks is insignificant relative to the deaths from gun violence.
That statement is meaningless. It's just the gov saying "if something does happen, we swear we didn't know, but we're not saying it's going to happen"...
We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the
distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our
company, our employees, and the American public.
But it has Mr. Smith / Elrond starring in it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interview_%281998_film%29
So join with me and petition your local theatre to show THE INTERVIEW, you know, the Hugo Weaving flick!
I think you mean Mitzi Del Bra!