Consensus is building among the blogosphere, etc that Sony’s submission to cyber hacker’s reeks of cowardice.
US intelligence reveals North Korea was behind the hack attack, and now we wait for the latest email leak to know how Seth Rogan really feels about Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin.
Sony has been in steep decline since the Discman and Walkman walked off a cliff, and let Apple conquer the digital music delivery service.
The Vaio computer department was sold off, leaving the Playstation and Movies to churn out eager profits for a once mighty conglomerate.
The Playstation hack of 2011 affected 25 million customers, swiping personal information ripe for abuse, and now, the mother of all hacks reveals insipid overpaid executives’ juvenile banter, and sensitive business practices.
Clearly not happy enough that the ship isn’t taking on more water, it has pulled the very product that might be a steadfast reason for free speech.
The ‘Interview’ is a comedic satire starring Seth Rogan and James Franco about a plot to terminate the most well fed Korean in North Korea Kim Jong Un.
This act of tomfoolery has had the top brass at Sony and even the White House in a tizzy concerning its content.
Kim Jong Un doesn’t appear to be laughing also, and allegedly ordered the ‘Guardians of Peace’ to counter this Act of War with an effective hack of Sony’s business infrastructure.
Now ‘The Interview’ will not be opening on Christmas Day due to 911 style bomb threats.
In fact it won’t be screened anywhere on DVD or online streaming.
The holiday period is a lucrative time for the Multiplexes and they don’t want to jeopardize a potential holiday bonanza.
So well done Sony, you have managed to surrender to grapefruit faced leader of a merciless hermit kingdom, and sabotage the Cineplex’s argument that streaming movies is the death knell of cinema.
And please, for the sake of clarity, point out the irony, which a bunch of maniacs by the name of ‘The Guardians of Peace’ want to kill people with gleeful pride.
Remember Salman Rushdie, The Dictator, Team America and Borat?
Even if the film were crap, why do need to bow down to pond scum like North Korea and give them and others license to curb free expression?
As it stands, round one goes to Hackers du jour.
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