U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Whilst I don't agree with the film being pulled I think foremost in theatre companies minds will have been the possibility of any nut job or terrorist organisation carrying out the dirty deed/atrocity in the name of whatever anywhere in the world.

That's the ironic part. A nation with a long history of blistering but mostly empty bluster managed to cow all these theater companies into ignominious retreat. But I guess it would only take one "lone wolf" effort, even a failed one, to cause a nation-wide panic.

It's not hard to worry that the response to The Interview will have a long lasting effect in terms of studios backing politically risky projects. Movie studios are already some of the most risk-averse businesses on Earth, and that's only becoming more and more true with every year. There are studio projects that will never get past the pitch stage, let alone get made if this trend continues.

[Skybird]

Broadcast it via the major TV networks - simultaneously in all states, at the same time!

Northkorea has just scored another intimidation victory over the US: I read the the plan to turn the comic "Pyongyang" into a movie, has been cancelled due to fears about Northkorean retaliation.

Charles Chaplin would cry.

[nikimcbee]

I think it was a cheap trick to get another NoKo thread started at subsim!


Whose got the most merit badges?

We do!

[Oberon]

Yeah, to be fair the cinemas are looking after their own backsides, the sueing that would take place if some nutter pulled an Aurora on a cinema showing The Interview would be catastrophic for any cinema company.
Still, with any luck it'll come out on DVD, and the Fighters for a Free Korea group can go ahead with their plan to float copies across the Korean border on balloons.

EDIT: Apparently one Texas cinema has replaced their showing of 'The Interview' with 'Team America', now that's how you do it

[Rockstar]

How is this a problem for me, the U.S. governement and We da people? Sony is a Japanese company, the writer and director are Canadian and the film was shot in Vancouver.

I'm sorry but count me out of this arguement.

[Wolferz]

I'd show the film no matter what. The DPRK probably doesn't have enough rice to deliver any significant munitions to this side of the globe.

I'm still surprised that the basketball player didn't knife the buggah when he had the chance.

[Mr Quatro]

another side benefit of hacking Sony and then publishing the information on the internet is to catch the unsuspecting person or persons looking for that information and playing 'tag your it'.

They say they traced the hack to North Korea, but surely not inside of North Korea. The amount of information downloaded through a back door had to have gone undetected for months.

North Korea does not have the resources to even store that much information much less make it public.

They suspect an inside job like the one at the NSA ... gee I wonder where they get such ideas from ...

the movies

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

another side benefit of hacking Sony and then publishing the information on the internet is to catch the unsuspecting person or persons looking for that information and playing 'tag your it'.

They say they traced the hack to North Korea, but surely not inside of North Korea. The amount of information downloaded through a back door had to have gone undetected for months.

North Korea does not have the resources to even store that much information much less make it public.

They suspect an inside job like the one at the NSA ... gee I wonder where they get such ideas from ...

the movies

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

I'd show the film no matter what. The DPRK probably doesn't have enough rice to deliver any significant munitions to this side of the globe.

I'm still surprised that the basketball player didn't knife the buggah when he had the chance.

Rolferz!!!!!!I get youuuuuu!

[Oberon]

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[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Oberon

EDIT: Apparently one Texas cinema has replaced their showing of 'The Interview' with 'Team America', now that's how you do it

The Alamo Drafthouse has since cancelled their planned showing of Team America.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/m...th-5965547.php

"Due to circumstances beyond our control, the TEAM AMERICA 12/27 screening has been cancelled. We apologize & will provide refunds today."

When even Texas is in full retreat from North Korea can the end be far off?

Time to pack it in and move to Cuba.

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

They say they traced the hack to North Korea, but surely not inside of North Korea. The amount of information downloaded through a back door had to have gone undetected for months.

North Korea does not have the resources to even store that much information much less make it public.

I dunno. It looks to me like an attack from North Korea, about as highly advanced as everything else they do. They stand out in the world because they are not venal and duplicitous in the ordinary sense. They have funneled the resources of an entire nation into projects that seem to have no purpose except to project belligerence and seem willing to forfeit every political, diplomatic and economic opportunity for the sake of these projects. They seem to be getting worse, more truculent and daring, as the years go by. I wonder where it will end. I 'm beginning to think a bang is more likely than a whimper.

And let's face it. They have no Seoul.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Dread Knot

The Alamo Drafthouse has since cancelled their planned showing of Team America.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/m...th-5965547.php

When even Texas is in full retreat from North Korea can the end be far off?

Time to pack it in and move to Cuba.

Wow...yeah, that's it then...GG America, nextmap.

[Jeff-Groves]

So..........
Who ever did the hacking??

THANK YOU!
You probably saved us from a bunch of really bad movies.

Can you hack the TV stuff now?

[Buddahaid]

I believe pulling the movie was more about not jeopardizing box office revenues from the other films in the line up. Still, it's a bad precedence which can only get worse and I hate it.

I'd like to see people at large buy Lil Kim masks and put on demonstrations to make him look an even larger fool. The target would then be non-specific for that smelly dung pile.