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Why is nobody criticizing the american new outlets and journalists who have publicly released the stolen data they received from the hackers?
Tons of people have criticized them
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Why is nobody criticizing the american new outlets and journalists who have publicly released the stolen data they received from the hackers?
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What Sony has done in response to the hacking and threats is good business, and the only choice to they really have. Just because a bunch of hollywood types, the press and people who want to express righteous indignation are loudly denouncing them as cowards doesn't make it wrong.
Those same people would be crucifying them if they released the film and there was subsequent hack info release, terror event or drastic money loss for the entertainment segment. They'd say that Sony could have prevented "insert imagined or real tragedy here" if only they'd done the right thing and limited or prevented release of the movie.
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What Sony has done in response to the hacking and threats is good business, and the only choice to they really have. Just because a bunch of hollywood types, the press and people who want to express righteous indignation are loudly denouncing them as cowards doesn't make it wrong.
Those same people would be crucifying them if they released the film and there was subsequent hack info release, terror event or drastic money loss for the entertainment segment. They'd say that Sony could have prevented "insert imagined or real tragedy here" if only they'd done the right thing and limited or prevented release of the movie.
There was never any realistic probability of a terrorist/North Korean attack. None. Even if you don't believe the DHS assessment saying that, common sense tells us that even the possibility that North Korea was involved in an attack on US soil would probably lead to a counterattack of some kind, perhaps even a regime change. Furthermore, the threat itself seemed to embolden American moviegoers, so the business risk to the industry was small.
The fact is that Sony was terrified that additional internal data that might be released (perhaps rightfully so), and therefore they agreed to the hackers' demands hoping the problem would just go away. And maybe it will for them, but now every other company in the US is at risk for large-scale cyber-blackmail because hackers have learned that it can work and the US government's ability to respond is limited at best.
Sony screwed everyone to save themselves and still may end up going down regardless.
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I've got it bootleg. Start making offers.
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as long as they have that data, they have leverage
this isn't over
quote:Should have done this right after movie chains started pulling the movie. If you are gonna take a loss on it, might as well make a PR statement that you won't be bullied.
Now Sony will release it for free on Crackle, the streaming service they own.