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AMC, Regal, and other chains are pulling The Interview (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=289243)

Im gonna pirate something for the first time in ages~

MAYBE WE SHOULD CENSOR ALL THINGS THAT HURT SOMEONES FEELINGS.

Then we can all go have dinner at Taco Bell.

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Originally Posted by alnorth (Post 11202503)

Live press conference going on right now. Obama just basically called out Sony and the theaters.

Said they made a mistake, and that they should not have allowed themselves to be intimidated. Also said the USA should not allow a dictator to impose censorship in our country.

Wow, didn't expect that from him.

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Originally Posted by alnorth (Post 11202503)

Technically they were threatening Japan considering NK's longstanding blood feud they have with Japan

Sony is doing this for themselves only. They are full aware of what was stolen and what can be released. Damage control.

Obama is speaking in hind-sight anyway. Easy to say now. If he was really concerned, he would have initiated that conversation, starting with the Govt of Japan.

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Originally Posted by listopencil (Post 11201817)

Have you ever had any contact (professional or personal) with Bobby Hendricks? He used to sing with the Drifters.

Nope, I've never met him, although my dad did some shows with the Drifters in the early 60's and has always spoken highly of them.

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Originally Posted by eDave (Post 11202724)

Yep.

If NK were to release all of the internal emails, inter-office memos, etc., their film and TV divisions would likely be dead. I'm sure there exists emails that would be so damaging that the talent would never work with them again.

When I was at Paramount, there was a guy in the Tape Room that sent a email to one of his co-worker disparaging a company Vice President. Mean, aggressive and extremely insulting. It was also supposed to be funny (which it wasn't).

Unfortunately for him, he pressed the wrong address and instead, it went it everyone at Viacom instead of his friend.

You can guess the rest. :D

Statement from Sony:

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Sony Pictures Entertainment is and always has been strongly committed to the First Amendment. For more than three weeks, despite brutal intrusions into our company and our employees’ personal lives, we maintained our focus on one goal: getting the film The Interview released. Free expression should never be suppressed by threats and extortion.

The decision not to move forward with the December 25 theatrical release of The Interview was made as a result of the majority of the nation’s theater owners choosing not to screen the film. This was their decision.

Let us be clear – the only decision that we have made with respect to release of the film was not to release it on Christmas Day in theaters, after the theater owners declined to show it. Without theaters, we could not release it in the theaters on Christmas Day. We had no choice.

After that decision, we immediately began actively surveying alternatives to enable us to release the movie on a different platform. It is still our hope that anyone who wants to see this movie will get the opportunity to do so.

We might get that grand wide-release VOD experiment after all. Movie studios have always been curious about how economically viable it might be to bypass the theaters.

@timalamo: Breaking news: Sony has authorized screenings of THE INTERVIEW on Christmas Day. We are making shows available within the hour. #Victory

Screenings and VOD. Alamo is carrying it. Hopefully the big boys like AMC reverse their decision

And NK has another internet blackout.

This decision was made because the US government intervened, not because of Sony or its leadership.

Sony still sucks.

A dipshit in has basement could knock out NK's feeble internet pipeline, and thats likely what has happened. US government doesn't need to DDOS.

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Originally Posted by hometeam (Post 11214450)

A dipshit in has basement could knock out NK's feeble internet pipeline, and thats likely what has happened. US government doesn't need to DDOS.

Yeah, I thought it was the USA, but since NK was able to restore their internet overnight only to have it knocked back down again this afternoon, I think the DDoS is being done by some random hacker with a bot army, or a group like Anonymous. NK's entire internet structure is so tiny that it probably doesn't take the resources of a state to knock it out.

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Originally Posted by hometeam (Post 11214450)

A dipshit in has basement could knock out NK's feeble internet pipeline, and thats likely what has happened. US government doesn't need to DDOS.

Those pesky Japanese hackers