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    Norks Nix Yanks' Pix :: SteynOnline

    Free speech is in retreat around the world. Twenty-five years ago, through all the violent demonstrations and murders of associated figures, The Satanic Verses remained in print and in almost every bookstore. Were it a new book being pitched today, no publisher would take it. I see that, following the disappearance of The Interview, a Texan movie theater replaced it with a screening of Team America. That film wouldn't get made today, either.

    Hollywood has spent the 21st century retreating from storytelling into a glossy, expensive CGI playground in which nothing real is at stake. That's all we'll be getting from now on. Oh, and occasional Oscar bait about embattled screenwriters who stood up to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee six decades ago, even as their successors cave to, of all things, Kim's UnKorean Activities Committee. American pop culture - supposedly the most powerful and influential force on the planet - has just surrendered to a one-man psycho-state economic basket-case that starves its own population.

    Kim Jong-won.
    U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack - The Daily Beast
    The New York Times today reported that the American intelligence community has determined that the regime of Kim Jong Un was “centrally involved” in the unprecedented hacking campaign against Sony Pictures Entertainment. CNN reports that the Justice Department will announce, perhaps as early as tomorrow, that hackers working for North Korea were behind the attacks, apparently intended to stop the release of The Interview, the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy about the assassination of the regime’s supremo.

    Why would the White House delay an announcement? The administration, the Times reports, “was still debating whether to publicly accuse North Korea of what amounts to a cyberterrorism campaign.” The concern is that a public accusation would result in an escalation.

    North Korea, however, will escalate no matter what. If the administration tries to avoid a confrontation, Pyongyang’s leaders will of course be emboldened. They undoubtedly are pleased that they were able to get Sony today to announce the indefinite delay of the opening of the film after theater chains, intimidated by Tuesday’s threats of 9/11-type attacks, refused to show it.

    'The Interview' Falls Apart: Theater Chains Pull Film, NY Premiere Canceled, Stars Scrap Promotional Duties - Breitbart
    According to TheWrap, both Carmike Cinemas and ArcLight Cinemas have decided to pull the film from their theaters in the wake of a new “9/11-style” terror threat issued by the Guardians of Peace hacker group this week against theaters that have committed to screen the film.

    The threat read, in part:

    We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places “The Interview” be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to.

    Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.

    The world will be full of fear.

    Remember the 11th of September 2001.

    We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.

    The Hollywood Reporter reported late Tuesday night that due to security concerns, the film’s premiere, originally scheduled for Thursday at Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema in New York, has been canceled. Sony was going to go ahead with its plans for the premiere, but Landmark eventually decided against it, a source told THR. The film is currently slated for wide release on Christmas Day.

    The New York premiere’s cancellation comes on the heels of stars Seth Rogen and James Franco canceling all promotional activities for the film on Tuesday and Wednesday. A representative for Rogen told THR that the actors would “reassess Thursday” to decide whether or not to conduct press events as normal.

    Obama: 'My Recommendation Would Be that People Go to the Movies' - Breitbart
    Obama explained that the cyber-attack was “serious,” but he encouraged people to go to the movies despite the threats on theaters that would have shown the now-canceled Christmas Day release of the film.

    “Well, the cyber-attack is very serious,” Obama said. “We’re investigating it. We’re taking it seriously. You know, we’ll be vigilant. If we see something that we think is serious and credible, then we’ll alert the public, but for now, my recommendation would be that people go to the movies.”
    In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

    Leibniz

  • #2
    The hackers and Hollywood, both gutless cowards.
    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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    • #3
      And also morons. This was the perfect opportunity for Sony to make a killing on their film. They'd easily get an extra $100 mil just from Americans going to see the movie as a big FU to kju. Social media promotions with hashtag #FUKimJungUn of course obligatory. The sequel, complete with cameos by jilted celebrities and execution of the hackers in NK, will practically write itself.

      But no, Sony instead acts spineless on every front. Their employees called it right. On top of being gutless, they are unoriginal and just bad at the business.
      Last edited by citanon; 18 Dec 14,, 20:53.

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      • #4
        Add Paramount to the list of the spaghetti spined. After the theater in Texas said FU, and said they'd run "Team America", another movie that made fun of NK, Paramount now won't let it run.

        The movies, especially Sony, really porked it away. I'm not a big Seth Rogan fan, and don't really want to waste my time at watching his crap on TV - but I would have gone to see this, just because.

        I'm waiting for the "Hollywood strong" stickers to come out anytime now...
        "Bother", said Poo, chambering another round.

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        • #5
          The USG govt should effectively now start jamming the signal every time dear leader does a live conference. or fly a B2 right over the parade grounds in bright red US flag and show all the followers that the US has the reach to take out dear leader

          Again all this based on the fact that it was the Nk's who did it. Could also be Russia / China doing psyops

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          • #6
            The USG govt should effectively now start jamming the signal every time dear leader does a live conference. or fly a B2 right over the parade grounds in bright red US flag and show all the followers that the US has the reach to take out dear leader
            Over hacking a Japanese company over a cheesy movie?

            A big who cares.
            Last edited by troung; 19 Dec 14,, 00:39.
            To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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            • #7
              Originally posted by troung View Post
              Over hacking a Japanese company over a cheesy movie?

              A big who cares.
              This is also an American company that just suffered the most devastating cyberattack upon a commercial company.

              It's a big deal. And it goes far deeper than one cheesy movie.
              “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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              • #8
                It goes to the heart of defending free speech. A foreign government thought it had a 21st century way of assaulting our constitutional rights without cost, now thanks to Sony's obsequiousness the hit has just landed with full effect. This needs a response.

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                • #9
                  Hve we come this far that a stupid company can't just pull the plug on her website servers and just reboot? It's a freaking website for fuck sites!
                  Chimo

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                  • #10
                    For fuck sakes, every engineer on earth knows when things go wrong, turn the damned thing off and turn it back on. Then go start looking for what else is wrong. We don't call it an engineering reset for nothing.
                    Chimo

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by citanon View Post
                      It goes to the heart of defending free speech. A foreign government thought it had a 21st century way of assaulting our constitutional rights without cost, now thanks to Sony's obsequiousness the hit has just landed with full effect. This needs a response.
                      how?

                      is anyone actually stopping them from releasing the film?

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                      • #12
                        This is also an American company that just suffered the most devastating cyberattack upon a commercial company.
                        They prodded a known crazy regime with a B-movie about murdering its public face. This wasn't an attack on my freedom of speech or an act of war. No one died and the company got humiliated for having some offensive views.

                        Media takes this more serious then an attack on the South, I wonder why.
                        To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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                        • #13
                          Someone please explain this to me. None of Sony's financial systems were attacked. Just their puplicity websites. So, how was this devastating?
                          Chimo

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by bfng3569 View Post
                            how?

                            is anyone actually stopping them from releasing the film?
                            Only Sony's cowardice and stupidity. Now regimes like NK are itching to test how many other American media firms are cowardly and stupid.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
                              Someone please explain this to me. None of Sony's financial systems were attacked. Just their puplicity websites. So, how was this devastating?
                              Col,

                              1. Most devastating to them: the hackers got into their private emails. Hollywood is a business based on hypocritical relationships where people are completely in love with one another in public and more than a little nasty with backs turned. The release of these emails put the nastiness of Sony execs on full display (with studio head Amy Pascal calling Angelina Jolie a talentless camp act, etc) directly threatens the maintenance of these relationships by the heads of the studio, and thereby, its future business prospects. The solution for this is simple. Fire the studio heads and bring in someone else. Trouble is, the studio heads are not so keen on this simple plan and are apparently desperate to prevent it.

                              2. Confidential documents regarding Sony's legal battles vs. Google and others, plus confidential financial documents regarding payment were taken. This could be a significant loss for them. On the other hand, it's probably not fatal to their business prospects.

                              3. They got four of Sony's unreleased movies. On the face of it this should be devastating to Sony's business if you believe the MPAA's exaggerated claims on the harms of piracy. However, people who go into theaters to see movies will probably go see these movies anyways.

                              4. Employee financial information was hacked. In theory Sony's employees are now more vulnerable to identity theft and physical violence. On the other hand, the studio can and has provided employee's with identity theft insurance. As for physical violence, are Sony employees so secret in the first place? Doubtful.

                              5. The hackers threatened physical violence. The studio claims this is why they cancelled the film (not delayed, cancelled entirely). How nerds in NK could physically attack American movie theater chains remain unexplained.

                              IMHO, it all goes back to one, or, more precisely, looking out for numero uno on the part of Amy Pascal and other top studio execs.

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