President Obama chastises Sony over cancelling of 'The Interview'

[joeorc]

In the message, the hackers told Sony, "Now we want you never let the movie released, distributed or leaked in any form of, for instance, DVD or piracy." It reportedly went on to demand that, "everything related to the movie, including its trailers, as well as its full version down from any website hosting them immediately."


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/19/hackers-sony-very-wise-to-pull-film.html

its like this in my opinion:
Sony's choice to do this movie was going to be bad taste: so the creative process getting through by the Sony movie heads, and them agreeing to go ahead with the movie was going to cause problems.

so it was green lit.

So now, hackers exloit Sony network defense on Mainframe, by useing stolen key on a admin level, data gets breached..on epic scale.

Now, Not only the costs, and damage further to sony as a company is increased, but now to top it off the people call out Sony for " lax in security" thus the law suits. Now will only increase further because of not only the breach, but now the outcry of not only the leader of the united states saying " you cannot cave to the demand" and many on this board also stated as such along with many people in Hollywood also saying you should not give in.

but as i just pointed out that, more Data is going to be released from this hack, so will the US than still take Sony to court over more data leaks, or help to further protect Sony against a further Data breach? How about if another breach happen with all changed network hardware and software, but yet they still get hacked? Will More workers @ Sony than take the company to court again for once again " not protecting their data"

its pretty clear, Sony is damned if they do, Damned if they Don't.
if i was Sony , i would sell off, the d@mn United States Movie arm and than refuse to do any movie that would ever put the company into such risk again, where a freaking Govt. Directs resources to hack my companies Main Frame, where the d@mn section of my companymmade the bone headed choice to put the rest of my company into such a situation in the 1st d@mn place.

while getting to use public means to slam my company, but than take the rest of my company to court, and where law suit, after law suit after d@mn law suit can further erode the perception of the company, where the rate agency's can further down grade my companies stock value in order so others can buy it cheap from me , just to aquire the asset.

yup thats the price your company is or must be willing to pay here in the good o'l USA!

Sony sell off the entertainment arm, while its still worth something after this.. right?
a very dirty game was played to get access to that part of Sony's company or is trying to see if it will work. The only real loose in this is Sony and the people that work there, but using such means in order to lower such value of asset in order to aquire such asset on the cheap, is playing quite dirty.

follow the Money, or lack of it..you won't sell?
we will see about that....if the freedom of speech is that important, using SONY AND ITS COMPANY IS EASY WHEN THEY ARE NOT THE ONES GETTING THE SHAFT! In court!