Okay, this computer thingy is my only news source, except for the Jeep’s radio which only returned to me two days ago and I only drive it a mile at a time. So this computer thingy is my only real news source, and I’ve been off it a lot lately. So I maybe heard this completely wrong, okay?
But what I heard was that Sony underwrote this satirical movie about assassinating Kim Jong Un – and really, who hasn’t thought about doing that? – and the Norks got their second-hand panties in a twist and hacked some Sony computers and distributed some dirty laundry of their own, and Sony pulled the movie from distribution? Seriously? That happened?
Because – judging from the fact that CGI has gotten so prevalent I’m surprised movies even still use actors, doesn’t Hollywood employ, like, every serious computer geek in the western world? I know North Korea has a rep for showing off WWII-era patrol boats and there are maybe four working aircraft in the whole country on any given day, but surely they do something important with computers. Even I do that. So how come Sony can’t assemble the talent to make every beige box in North Korea melt down or something? The disparity of force must be awe-inspiring, if they apply it.
The whole thing is stupid, far as I can see. I have no idea what all this movie is about, actually, or if it is worth watching, but what I’m reading this afternoon would indicate that it will be available, probably free, on the internet soon.
Take THAT, fat little NK dictator. Hope it chokes him. Every time I see a picture of the cretin I wish I could wipe that stupid smile off his face. He has NO idea just what and with whom he is messing… and I don’t mean the US military at all.
Sony just nailed in their own last coffin nail, I think. Good riddance.
Tho’ I normally avoid any movie Seth Rogan’s associated with, I was very much looking forward to seeing that one. The cowardice of pulling it from its planned release (cowardice not only on Sony’s part but the theater chains’) is disgusting. Pretty easy to “terrorize” when your target is made up of chronic bedwetters and thumb suckers.
The North Koreans may have won in the sense of depriving Sony of profit and reputation, but ML’s right; more people are going to see this movie for free than would ever have seen it for pay, and His Fat Divineness will be more mocked than ever.
You know me; I don’t believe in pirating creative works. But both for Sony’s cravenness and Kim Jong-Un’s megalomaniac authoritarianism, this is one I’ll grab as soon as I can find it streaming someplace.
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-clooney-we-cannot-be-told-we-cant-see-something-by-kim-jong-un-of-all-f-g-people-2014-12
George Clooney has the right take on it. (He may be a liberal suck, but I like him.)
The pres. of Sony says they haven’t caved in, they didn’t pull the film, it was all due to the theater owners, blah blah blah. But Clooney’s right. If Sony really wasn’t caving, then at the same time they cancelled the premier they’d have announced a multi-faceted immediate release — DVD, Blu-Ray, streaming. They’d have doubled down. Would have been smart publicity as well as the right thing to do.
I hear Sony wanted to rootkit North Korea, but couldn’t get into any of the 286s during their turn on the dialup modem.
(But seriously: Sony’s been hacked more than fifty times; why is this one newsworthy? And why wasn’t it particularly newsworthy when Sony hacked 22 million customers?)
Thanks, Bear. Too many people have put the Sony rootkit debacle into the memory hole. This whole thing starts to sound more and more like a publicity stunt. The Norks do not have the chops (at least not on their own) to do something like this, and the speed of which Obozo and friends jumped on the wagon makes it even more suspicious. Oh, and Clooncunt should STFU about things about which he knows nothing.
(fessup: I’m a retired software engineer, with quite a few network chops of my own).
I admit I’d forgotten about Sony’s despicable adventures with rootkits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
Yeah, they deserve whatever they just got.
In all fairness to Sony, a) it wasn’t the hacking itself that prompted them to pull the film, it was the hackers’ threats of terror attacks on any theaters that showed the film, and b) Sony didn’t actually pull the film, they just told the theaters that they wouldn’t be penalized for breach of contract if they chose not to show it because of the threats. It was the theaters that chose to pull the movie.