Author Topic: This Sony hack is pretty bonkers (Read 20450 times)

Yeti · « **on:** December 17, 2014, 05:50:02 PM »

It's pretty crazy how thoroughly and completely Sony got hacked. It seems like there is new drama about it every day. So much gossip has been released. And I just heard they cancelled the premiere of "The Interview" over it? Wow.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:02:29 PM »

I'm not sure, but once again feel stupid for leaving my cc info on file on PSN.

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:03:14 PM »

No gaming stuff though surprisingly.

kingkitty · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:07:12 PM »

kim jong-un won

the face of a winner

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:12:16 PM »

Quote from: kingkitty on December 17, 2014, 06:07:12 PM

kim jong-un won

yes, yes he did.

TVC15 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:20:03 PM »

How are the Sony stans on GAF taking the news?

Yeti · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:21:03 PM »

Here's a pretty good day by day summary of what all has happened (so far)

http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-hack-timeline-any-pascal-the-interview-north-korea-1201325501/

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:21:19 PM »

Quote from: Esch on December 17, 2014, 05:50:37 PM

yeah can anyone sum this shit up / have a good cumulative link to the leaks?

Imagine emails saying "x movie sucks balls" or "x person is a distinguished mentally-challenged asshole" where x movie is every movie that Sony currently has in development and x person is everyone who's ever worked with Sony.

Yeti · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:22:11 PM »

Just got an AP News alert on my phone that federal investigators have connected the Sony hacking to North Korea

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:24:55 PM »

It'll probably just be dumped in February.

Yeti · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:36:08 PM »

Quote from: Dufus on December 17, 2014, 06:24:14 PM

I cannot fucking believe this hack managed to get the movie cancelled.

That's fucking unbelievable.

A bunch of hackers from North Korea supported by Kim Jong Cheeselover got that shit done. THEY GOT IT DONE. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

How the fuck is that possible?

Well along with the hack, the group claiming responsibility also made terroristic threats against theaters that played the movie. So of course audience goers would be skittish against going, and theaters would be reluctant to play it.

nudemacusers · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:40:41 PM »

yeah the theater threats did it in; not only would that be bad for the movie itself, but probably any other movie too.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2014, 06:45:26 PM »

But... I wanna see this shitty movie

Your Stalker · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:02:32 PM »

I could've swore the FBI said NK wasn't involved a few days ago.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/09/us-sony-cybersecurity-fbi-idUSKBN0JN1MF20141209
guess not

Bebpo · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:10:52 PM »

FBI and reputable news is saying it was very likely NK hacker group Dark Seoul who hacked South Korea last year. I know people like to make all these conspiracy theories, but sometimes (actually most of the time) the simplest answer is the right one. NK's had beef with this film for a while and has asked for it to be cancelled several times before this.

Quote from: nudemacusers on December 17, 2014, 06:40:41 PM

yeah the theater threats did it in; not only would that be bad for the movie itself, but probably any other movie too.

Yeah, another studio already cancelled a quality drama thriller set in NK today that was in production. (http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/17/steve-carell-north-korea-set-movie-dropped/?hootPostID=222fb7ab0647209fb29cb10892565a27)

Terrorists won, world is changed into a shittier place again as what keeps happening post 9/11.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:14:56 PM »

As long as no civilians are killed, this is all far, far more entertaining than the movie would be.

Himu · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:16:54 PM »

So the movie has been cancelled. Terrorists win. What happens if someone makes a movie about China or ISIS now? Cancel over threats?

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:19:54 PM »

I predict record DVD and digital sales if they actually keep it out of theaters

Bebpo · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:20:20 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on December 17, 2014, 07:16:54 PM

So the movie has been cancelled. Terrorists win. What happens if someone makes a movie about China or ISIS now? Cancel over threats? This makes sony look even more weak.

Sony didn't have a choice but to cancel the current release when every major theater chain and digital distribution chain said they weren't going to carry it because they were afraid they'd get hacked or worse as well.

Sony's choices were pretty much:
1) Lose the 100 million spent on the film (44 million production costs + heavy marketing campaign) entirely to say fuck you terrorists and release it on torrents so all the world can see FREEDOM.

2) Sit on it until this cools down and hope they can sell it and make some of that money back either in theaters or on VoD at a later point.

They're still a company and money still matters over pride, so they went with #2.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:21:42 PM »

This sets a bad precedence for the future. I don't even want to think of what others might think they could get away with by doing something similar. $:-\$

I'm also pissed I don't get to see the Interview on christmas!

Himu · « **Reply #20 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:24:26 PM »

Still sony's fault because they let them [theatres] out of their contracts to begin with

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #21 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:26:20 PM »

Can't Obama just drone these fuckers to death?

Himu · « **Reply #22 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:27:57 PM »

If I were Sony I would pull it out of theatres. Then release digitally because fuck you. Instead, they let them win and have now set a horrible precedent for creativity. But then again NK is close to Japan, and japan likely treats Nk 1000000x more seriously than we do

sarslip · « **Reply #23 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:30:09 PM »

eminem is in the film?

Barry Egan · « **Reply #24 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:30:23 PM »

Please understand

TVC15 · « **Reply #25 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:33:49 PM »

I can't wait to see what happens next. I hope there are more awesome leaks. Man, Sony's never going to live this down.

Bebpo · « **Reply #26 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:36:16 PM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on December 17, 2014, 07:27:57 PM

If I were Sony I would pull it out of theatres. Then release digitally because fuck you. Instead, they let them win and have now set a horrible precedent for creativity. But then again NK is close to Japan, and japan likely treats Nk 1000000x more seriously than we do

I do wonder how Japan is gonna be reporting/reacting to this whole situation.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #27 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:43:29 PM »

North Korea looking like some butthurt bitches over this shit. Remember when there was a whole musical number dissing KJL in Team America?
Remember when they remade Red Dawn and they had to spend like a two years in post production changing all the references from China to North Korea? Now two stoners make a yuckemup and these clowns decided to get offended? For shame!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #28 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:51:06 PM »

The world needs Team America 2, more than ever.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:58:48 PM »

What are the chances that both Cuba AND North Korea would win on the same day? If they could do it, Russia can.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #30 on:** December 17, 2014, 07:59:44 PM »

Quote from: Human Snorenado on December 17, 2014, 07:26:20 PM

Can't Obama just drone these fuckers to death?

That seems a little extreme, they did give us the PS2 afterall.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #31 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:00:15 PM »

Russia gave up glorious communism, they deserve to lose.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #32 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:02:12 PM »

This is the best thing that could have possibly happened to this movie. When it's inevitably released (probably VOD or direct to disc), scores of people who previously had zero interest in it will buy/rent out of sheer curiosity. By accounts it isn't very good, but it could be absolute dogshit and will now probably end up making double what it would have without the controversy.

That said, this reaction isn't surprising in the least. We're a nation of pussies now. Every time something like this happens nowadays I think about Carlin's "Pussification of America" bit from years ago and wish he were still alive to see it, because that was some Nostradamus-type prediction shit.

cool breeze · « **Reply #33 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:06:31 PM »

I only heard paul reiser emailed sony about mad about you dvds. doubt anything else tops it.

TVC15 · « **Reply #34 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:11:32 PM »

https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2014/12/a-breakdown-and-analysis-of-the-december-2014-sony-hack/#leaksblamegamereduxcavingin

From the leaks:

"The second interesting thing to come from the leak are the Motion Picture Associate of America’s (MPAA) apparent plans to try to negatively impact the Internet by attacking DNS servers."

Sony deserves everything they're getting and more.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #35 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:14:14 PM »

Quote from: fryinghigh on December 17, 2014, 08:06:31 PM

I only heard paul reiser emailed sony about mad about you dvds. doubt anything else tops it.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #36 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:16:34 PM »

From the comments:

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Wow, how is this sad at all? People ask for TV shows to get released on DVD all the time ("Living Single" is one of the greatest demanded unreleased shows from Warner Bros, for example.) This is literally a reasonable business email; you are just used to no one asking anything of you because you have nothing to offer in terms of help for anyone because you're just a sad sad pile of despair and unwashed socks.

Fire Sam Biddle.

^ got starred/favorited 589 times

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #37 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:17:04 PM »

dkdk · « **Reply #38 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:18:22 PM »

this shit is sillier than whatever south park would come up w/ to mock a situation like this.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #39 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:19:29 PM »

what's funny about the Paul Reiser email?

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #40 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:19:47 PM »

Gonna begin all my anecdotes with "my recollection (comedically distorted, I'm sure) is that..." from now on

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #41 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:20:19 PM »

Seth Rogen should star as a North Korean hacker stealing all of Sony's email.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #42 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on December 17, 2014, 08:02:12 PM

This is the best thing that could have possibly happened to this movie. When it's inevitably released (probably VOD or direct to disc), scores of people who previously had zero interest in it will buy/rent out of sheer curiosity. By accounts it isn't very good, but it could be absolute dogshit and will now probably end up making double what it would have without the controversy.

That said, this reaction isn't surprising in the least. We're a nation of pussies now. Every time something like this happens nowadays I think about Carlin's "Pussification of America" bit from years ago and wish he were still alive to see it, because that was some Nostradamus-type prediction shit.

a-fuckin'-men. we're hysterical about everything. TERROR! GUNS! EBOLAS! MESSICANS! THUGS! ISIS! MUSLIMS! THEY GUNNA KILL MY PRECIOUS WHITE BAAAAABBIES <huffs into bag> <faints>

pilonv1 · « **Reply #43 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:20:53 PM »

I agree with Eel, if it wasn't for the other hack stuff I would say this was a promotional stunt.

Living Single was ok, not sure why everyone is demanding it. Oscar should be happy to hear Paul Reisers take on Mad About You though

Real talk should be about how fucking hard it is to get Ed on DVD

cool breeze · « **Reply #44 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:33:41 PM »

Quote from: Yeti on December 17, 2014, 06:21:03 PM

Here's a pretty good day by day summary of what all has happened (so far)

http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-hack-timeline-any-pascal-the-interview-north-korea-1201325501/

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New Regency scraps plans to produced an untitled thriller that was to be set in North Korea. The film was to star Steve Carell for director Gore Verbinski. Steve Conrad wrote the script.

countdown to next movie studio willing to make a movie about north korea.

TVC15 · « **Reply #45 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:35:15 PM »

I bet Bill Cosby is so happy that something's happened to get the attention off of him.

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #46 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:36:32 PM »

Sony just shot themselves in the foot

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #47 on:** December 17, 2014, 08:48:32 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on December 17, 2014, 08:02:12 PM

This is the best thing that could have possibly happened to this movie. When it's inevitably released (probably VOD or direct to disc), scores of people who previously had zero interest in it will buy/rent out of sheer curiosity. By accounts it isn't very good, but it could be absolute dogshit and will now probably end up making double what it would have without the controversy.

That said, this reaction isn't surprising in the least. We're a nation of pussies now. Every time something like this happens nowadays I think about Carlin's "Pussification of America" bit from years ago and wish he were still alive to see it, because that was some Nostradamus-type prediction shit.

there was a more than great chance that The Interview was going to underperform on its original release date. Night at the Museum 3 would have curb stomped it anyway. The multiplex schedule is about to become jam packed and they probably would have lost our anyway.

Yeti · « **Reply #48 on:** December 17, 2014, 09:07:49 PM »

I think there were emails leaked that Sony themselves thought The Interview was unfunny shit. But they trash talked so many of their own movies and actors I can't keep it all straight.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #49 on:** December 17, 2014, 09:30:06 PM »

Be a multinational conglomerate with an IT staff on call from some basement in Poland, brehs.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #50 on:** December 17, 2014, 09:34:35 PM »

Goddamn North Korea, they are the reason why my dick pics are all over the net.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #51 on:** December 17, 2014, 09:36:32 PM »

people are really mad a company pulled a fucking movie they didn't even want to see like that's the biggest problem in the country right now

TVC15 · « **Reply #52 on:** December 17, 2014, 09:38:53 PM »

The only way Sony could ever recover from their current loser status is to make a movie starring me, Arvie, and Jon Hamm about the development of the CIA's anal feeding torture techniques.

thisismyusername · « **Reply #53 on:** December 17, 2014, 09:40:30 PM »

Quote from: Yeti on December 17, 2014, 09:07:49 PM

I think there were emails leaked that Sony themselves thought The Interview was unfunny shit. But they trash talked so many of their own movies and actors I can't keep it all straight.

They shit talked EVERYONE. But even their own employees (the e-mails were the studio heads) are sick of Adam Sandler films. There was a leaked "complaint" document that had people complaining about the numerous Adam Sandler films.

Channing Tatums e-mail over 22 Jump Street was

TVC15 · « **Reply #54 on:** December 17, 2014, 09:46:16 PM »

I never saw that post before!

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #55 on:** December 17, 2014, 11:22:15 PM »

are there any new jlaw cunt pix

team filler · « **Reply #56 on:** December 17, 2014, 11:43:57 PM »

Quote from: thisismyusername on December 17, 2014, 09:40:30 PM

Quote from: Yeti on December 17, 2014, 09:07:49 PM
I think there were emails leaked that Sony themselves thought The Interview was unfunny shit. But they trash talked so many of their own movies and actors I can't keep it all straight.

They shit talked EVERYONE. But even their own employees (the e-mails were the studio heads) are sick of Adam Sandler films. There was a leaked "complaint" document that had people complaining about the numerous Adam Sandler films.

Channing Tatums e-mail over 22 Jump Street was

link?

thisismyusername · « **Reply #57 on:** December 17, 2014, 11:50:49 PM »

Quote from: filler on December 17, 2014, 11:43:57 PM

Quote from: thisismyusername on December 17, 2014, 09:40:30 PM
Quote from: Yeti on December 17, 2014, 09:07:49 PM
I think there were emails leaked that Sony themselves thought The Interview was unfunny shit. But they trash talked so many of their own movies and actors I can't keep it all straight.

They shit talked EVERYONE. But even their own employees (the e-mails were the studio heads) are sick of Adam Sandler films. There was a leaked "complaint" document that had people complaining about the numerous Adam Sandler films.

Channing Tatums e-mail over 22 Jump Street was
link?

All you need to do is Google there's various places like Defamer/Gawker that are going through the "leaks" hacked e-mails to post articles about them.

http://defamer.gawker.com/channing-tatum-writes-emails-exactly-like-you-think-he-1670777558

http://gawker.com/sony-hack-reveals-25-page-list-of-reasons-it-sucks-to-w-1666264634

thisismyusername · « **Reply #58 on:** December 18, 2014, 12:03:24 AM »

While I'm linking:

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/12/sony-email-hack-alex-trebek-jeopardy-rant/

Barraco Barner · « **Reply #59 on:** December 18, 2014, 01:42:53 AM »

Quote from: thisismyusername on December 17, 2014, 09:40:30 PM

Channing Tatums e-mail over 22 Jump Street was

The Tatum emails are so

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In August, Tatum sent the following email to Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal, seemingly to express his interest in starring in a new Ghostbusters film: "Let us show the world The DarkSide and let us fight it with all the glory and epicness of a HUGE BATMAN BEGINS MOVIE. I know we can make this a huge franchise. Fun adventure craziness. COME OONNNN!!!"

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