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yes, sir, you have.
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Being a Japanese company, maybe Sony should talk to the Japanese government.
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I can’t think of a clearer definition of “backing down” than Sony’s reaction to this whole incident.
Their actions have made everyone less safe and freedom of expression less possible.
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Sony was basically forced to cancel the movie because all the major theater chains “backed down” and refused to show it. Sure, they could have released it to the few independent movie houses in a gesture of defiance but to what end?
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“I don’t know exactly whether he understands the sequence of events that led up to the movie not being shown in the movie theaters,” Lynton said.
Do tell, what exactly was the sequence of events?
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If what Sony did wasn’t surrender, what the hell was it?
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Ummm, they certainly DID back down.
SONY was put in a terrible position here. Chances are had the released the movie as planned, nothing would have happened. But IF something did, the company would have been screwed up, down, left and sideways.
SONY should just admit they caved and be happy. In the long run, this was the best publicity they could have been given for this particular movie. Now people will be more than anxious to see it to
- see what all the hubbub was about
and - to stick it to the hackers.
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To what end? How about standing up to a tyrant? Maybe standing for freedom of expression? All kinds of things Americans admire. Take your pick.
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Sony has every plan to release the movie, but why not wait to let the free publicity continue and have the film be made out into a martyr for free speech and anti-Communism first. After all, if they release it now, people will realize it’s as awful as every other Seth Rogen film and nobody will care.
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I’ve seen portions of the interview with the Sony CEO. His statements don’t really “deny” that Sony backed down; instead, he tries to explain “why” Sony backed down. According to the CEO, theaters began to refuse to show the film, and, because of that, Sony decided not to release the film. Either way, it is undeniable that Sony made the decision, for whatever reason, to not even release the movie in whatever theaters were willing to show it. That decision, according to the President, was a mistake, and the President is correct.
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My point is - the public should be pissed off at the theater owners and not the convenient headline fall guy, i.e. Sony.
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Well, first some lawyers wet their pants, and then they went screaming down the hall in a panic and caused this guy to wet his pants. So, not so much backing down as total flaccid submission. Totally different.
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“We have not given in. And we have not backed down. We have always had every desire to have the American public see this movie,”
Back down is too soft a word for what Sony did.
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Hey now! Sony Pictures is as American as Chrysler and Budweiser!
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Basically, Sony is saying they haven’t figured out a way to monetize the showing of the film now. Until that happens, they’re gonna hold it in abeyance. So really, for them it has nothing to do with suppression of creative free expression, even though they’ve allowed themselves to be intimidated into suppressing that very expression all the same as a result of their actions. Their main concern has always been about how to make back their money if the damn thing is ever shown.
You know what? I’m starting to get really sick of this story. Sony, with all it profits, should have invested in better cyber security. They have no one to blame but themselves. They probably have more money than the government too to protect themselves if they wanted. They just didn’t choose to put their money where their mouth is.
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“We have not given in. And we have not backed down,” said Lynton, peeking around his mamma’s skirts.
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No, the public should be pissed off at both Sony and the theater chains.
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My very first desktop computer was a Sony Vaio. You’d think this company would know a little something more about computer codes, security and oh, I don’t know, Norton Anti-Virus shit (or whatever they use today). Sony is a joke.
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They would have been embarrassed by whatever hacked information that has yet to be released, but they wouldn’t have been screwed up.
One explanation for this is that whatever information the hackers still have must be pretty explosive. Of course, as everyone who has read a novel/watched a movie, blackmailing is rarely a one-time thing, whatever the hackers have they’ll still have it 6 months from now, and hey maybe they’ll want something else shelved at that point
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