Latest Sony Hack is Some Serious Shit

I had a big screed posted but I deleted it, I'm still on that "outrage culture" point, but I haven't articulated it well enough at the moment.

As for the hack, I personally think the North Korea story is smokescreen for a bunch of Sony execs wanting to keep more emails from the public, and their wives divorce lawyers.

I wonder what the penalty would be for any North Korean caught with a copy of this movie?

Actually, no, I don't wonder at all.

No, NK will execute anyone in possession of a copy. Pirate DVD's are outside of the government-approved economy.

That would suck, because NK is just one place that makes great movie we are never exposed to:

120,000,000 Angry Men - Sandbox Pictures
Goodfatwas - 12th Century Fox
Apocalypse WOW - Kimland Productions
It's An Underful Life - Kimland Productions
Cool Hand Gook - Kimland Productions
Dial M For Martyr - Desert Rage Films

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/35128/cinemas-won-t-show-team-america

Publicity stunt.

Well, here's something to chew on. Sony's got control of the Bond franchise, they're currently shooting the 24th film in the series, and someone's asked to play a villain in a future Bond film who'd be perfect. Stephen Motherfucking Hawking!

I'd laugh if this forced Sony to sell Spiderman back to Marvel Disney.

Its looking like that might happen.

Bond: "Do you expect me to talk"

Dr. Wheels: [creepy electronic monotone voice] NO MR BOND I EXPECT YOU TO DIE.

Sounds like a Family Guy cut to.

No I've seen that, I mean the Stephen Hawking thing sounds like something from Family Guy. It's what I imiganed with your post. In other words, good job.

(In reference to The Interview, et al)

I find this whole story ironically hypocritical.

Censorship is just as important to the U.S. as it is to NK. Just because we are intimately familiar with our own boundaries, doesn't mean that our country's suppressed speech is more reasonable or fair than NK's suppressed speech.

I sincerely doubt Washington would allow its political enemies to produce a $40M shockumentary about assassinating a current POTUS.

I don't trust the current propaganda against NK and particularly KJU. I suspect NK is targeted by our media moguls because they're among the last remaining countries to willingly participate in the globalist's interests. They've resisted international financing and they don't play the central banking game the way they're supposed to.

True. Just the other day I had to execute three entire families who had been caught with material that was less than flattering about the Obama family.

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They allow our allies to do it.

Which speaks volumes about the litigious nature of the US.

The likelihood of hackers being able to follow through on meatspace attacks is small, practically zero, although (amusingly enough) would make for a fun film (oh wait, Die Hard 4.0 went there...)

It's pretty pathetic Sony caved in like this, if they were going to cancel the showing then they ought to have upped the ante and just gave it away free for 48 hours along with with knocking up a quick online game where you get to do unspeakable things to Kim Jong Un. They've got Sony's data, it is going to get released, so there is no percentage in simply surrendering and hoping the hackers will play nice. You do something to tell them to go fuck themselves.

As for the US, the response to a terrorist threat on it's soil in the name of NK, ought to be drones making their way into NK, hijacking local media and showing the damn film there. NK may not even be behind it, but such a response would have Russia and China sit up and take note. The prospect of their tightly controlled media being overridden will cause chills, especially as the US can claim the same kind of deniability they do with the cyber attacks - "What? Someone used an off-the-shelf-drone and some off-the-shelf electronics to show a town something you didn't want them to see? We. Are. Shocked. We'd never do something like that!" - with the added bonus it'd cause more social ructions than digging up financial data.

And they also couldn't really respond likewise. "Pavel, we will send over things saying 9-11 was an inside job! Oh, wait, there are already websites and channels showing that. Erm, horrible porn? Ah, no, I saw the one of the girls shitting in a cup. Fuck."

Bollocks. They'd denounce it as bad taste of course, but the beauty of the West is we delight in pushing boundaries, it's how we tend to progress socially. Reservoir Dogs was banned from home release in the UK for a while, we've now games far more bloody and violent. The follow up to the original House of Cards started with Thatchers funeral whilst she was still breathing, you had the usual hollers of outrage, but no one really gave a shit outside of trying to sell papers off it.

No, they just have people who live their entire life in gulags.

Tch, poor bastards would be so much worse off with bankers.

Gotta give Hawking some credit here -- he realizes he presents creepy, and has a sense of humor about it.

Good. Then maybe we'd finally get a decent Spidey flick.

And yes, I'm aware of the Raimi films. I still stand by my statement.

Well known hippie and all around anti-American, George Clooney calls Hollywood a bunch of cowards for pulling the film. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ywood-amid-sony-hack-attack/story?id=27713775

Kiss it.

And Anita Sarkeesian wrings her hands, and says "soon...soon it will be me telling people what to art".

Should start using this.

Now that it's pretty much confirmed that the hack did originate in NK, has anyone considered the possibility that it's NK playing the long game against Japan for WWII atrocities, with the U.S. as collateral damage? That would be...interesting.

You may be onto something there. Lil Kim just really wants a role in the next Bond movie. Son of Odd Job?

I wish Al Sharpton would just die already.

Sony's really rewriting the book on how to wreck a company. Somebody from Sony released a new trailer for The Interview. http://gizmodo.com/sony-just-accidentally-released-a-new-promo-for-the-1672962968