Sony Hack

Just keeps getting more interesting.  It's like a movie in and of itself.
I figured the original hackers found something illicit that they threatened to expose.  I can't think of any other reason other than people going to jail at Sony that would cause them to cancel the movie altogether. 

I would be happy and grateful if someone would just take down the entire net......permanently.  It appears to me that we've probably squeezed all of the good out of it.....from here on out it just gets stupid IMO.

I would be happy and grateful if someone would just take down the entire net......permanently.  It appears to me that we've probably squeezed all of the good out of it.....from here on out it just gets stupid IMO.

I was just thinking a little more about this.  

If you really take a step back and look at how invasive (good and bad) the internet has been to industries and us as humans it's just crazy.

Even something as simple as BT which allows people from all over the world to talk about Triathlon (and other stupid stuff) simply didn't exist 20 years ago.  We went to the library or talked to people at a local club and that was about it.  The entire globe was very isolated.
One thing that I've been fascinated overall is the cataclysmic shift in our global culture because of the internet.  So many countries (even our own) used the power of money to control what information was given to the populous.  Now, we see third world countries uprising against their leaders because of the ability to see information unfiltered.

Even xenophobic "we're better than you" mentalities are so much less today than they ever were before because it's easier to discover that we're truly one people on one earth that want the same things when we build communities with people from other countries.  We learn that there are thugs everywhere and there are criminals everywhere, but the regular people of the world all want the same things, no matter what country they were born in.

I play a dumb pool game on my phone and there are people from all over the world who i get matched up against.  I played a guy from Iran this morning who had a profile picture of what I'm assuming is him and his daughter together smiling.  They looked so amazing and I just couldn't help but think how beautiful they were.  Stuff like that tears down preconceived notions of "all Iranians are the enemy" type of mentalities that our leaders have hawked for decades.

So, overall I get your point because there are negatives that come from the Internet but the positives are so much greater that it would be devastating to go back.

The hackers continued to leak more and more embarrassing information from high level Sony employees, and gave them an ultimatum to cancel the move "or else".  So, my guess is that they had some very bad information that they had dug up (possibly illegal in nature) that Sony simply could not allow to be made public.

I obviously I have no idea, but for them to take a near $100M loss was less painful then the alternative.  So, that is mostly where I'm coming from.

I see a day where the internet is a haven for bad people intent on evil, and I'm the least pessimistic person you know......I think we'll beg to go back.

I would be happy and grateful if someone would just take down the entire net......permanently.  It appears to me that we've probably squeezed all of the good out of it.....from here on out it just gets stupid IMO.

Haha, this reminded me of Elon Musk talking about how fast artificial intelligence is developing.  "If its [function] is just something like getting rid of e-mail spam and it determines the best way of getting rid of spam is getting rid of humans ..."

Obviously we only have what the media and government is telling us.  Personally I don't feel that North Korea is even close to on par with the world when it comes to information technology infrastructure and capabilities.  Think of a country like America with kids growing up surrounded with technology and programming, yet we have a very small number of hackers who are truly gifted and capable enough of hacking on a scale of this magnitude.  It takes a much larger machine than I feel N. Korea is capable of creating in house.

So, my gut tells me they may be funding something or involved with it, but they in no way have the ability to do the attack.

Haha, this reminded me of Elon Musk talking about how fast artificial intelligence is developing.  "If its [function] is just something like getting rid of e-mail spam and it determines the best way of getting rid of spam is getting rid of humans ..."

Great........this is the part where N. Korea hacks down BT.  Thanks Tony.

See.....they have already hacked your account so your responses don't show up.

Marketing ploy pure and simple.  The world would have totally ignored this movie if it wasn't for this BS. Unfortunately it seems to have been effective so expect lots more of it in the future.

I work in the film business and many of my friends have worked for Sony. Their personal information has now been leaked and some of them have already gotten their bank accounts wiped. This is not a marketing ploy