NK is a master of trolling. They are offering to help the investigation into who is behind the hack. I actually admire them for that degree of sauciness.
Sony had to pull the film after it was the major theater chains that rolled over and played dead, not Sony.
If Sony has no theaters willing to release, then where is the income suppose to come from? Naturally Sony had to pull the film. After all, and especially with Sony being Sony, no one is going to see their film for free.
it just doesn't work that way.
Ask any film maker how difficult it is to get financing for a film.
Moses parting the Red Sea in the THE TEN COMMANDMENTS was the second miracle.
Obtaining the films financing was the real miracle.
Sony is not going to limit release to streaming media, nor drop free DVD's from air.
Sony can write it off a a loss as long as they never release the film.
What NK should have done instead of hacking, would have been to make and promote a film where Obama and the entire US congress are attacked by snakes on a plane, or all ran through a wood chippers.
Like the ending in the film FARGO, just wood chipper one by one every single elected official of the entire US government.
Sure, we might complain over such a film, as would NK complain about this Sony film.
But in the end, at least we'd have two pretty darn good films to enjoy come Christmas day.
What I wonder about and I have not heard anyone in the news media talking about, is if NK, or anyone for that matter, can hack into Sony so efficiently, then what risk is there to our national security?
Could they already have the ability to shut down our entire United States power gird? Infiltrate control of our nuclear arsenal? Steal every penny out of every US bank?
Shut down communication satellites? Force program Gay sex on every DirecTV TV channel?
Could they already have the ability to do all of this?
Are the hackers just waiting for the right time and right place when such a major hack attack would have the most effect?
That is what the conversation should be about.
If NK or anyone can do this damage, what else might they do that we have no protections from?
An hack attack that would really bring us to our knees?
I always had this fear that Seth Rogen would bring the end of civilization as we know it.
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Does anyone else not give a flying fuck?
Last I checked Sony wasn't an American company. I keep seeing all these retarded internet memes with the American Eagle and other shit saying they are going to go see it 50 times and other crap to spite it or something (as if they really are ). It's like saying they are going to support america by buying a Toyota Camry. How fucking retarded are you?
Last I checked Sony wasn't an American company.
Sony Entertainment is an American company.
So check again.
Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社 Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha?), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Any company can make an American Entity - that is an obvious assessment in doing business in a foreign nation. Derp de derp.
Does Ford de México make Ford a Mexican company?
C'mon now, learn some basics in business class little man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony
Any company can make an American Entity - that is an obvious assessment in doing business in a foreign nation. Derp de derp.
Does Ford de México make Ford a Mexican company?
C'mon now, learn some basics in business class little man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony
I think you need to learn how a subsidiary works
WASHINGTON (AP) -- North Korea experienced sweeping and progressively worse Internet outages extending into Monday, with one computer expert saying the country's online access is "totally down." The White House and the State Department declined to say whether the U.S. government was responsible.
Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, a company that studies Internet connectivity, said the problems were discovered over the weekend and grew progressively worse to the point that "North Korea's totally down."
"They have left the global Internet and they are gone until they come back," he said.
I'm not going to see it. False patriotism isn't going to get me to see a movie I wasn't interested in a month ago. None of the hacking and junk changes that. I'd rather see the last Hobbit movie or something.