It's our cowardly corporations that are to blame.
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They're capitulating to black mail.

drive up viewership even.

movie that could piss off a genuine lunatic.

As for their need to grow some cojones, I prefer brains over cojones. Just one fucking incident at a theater and they would be sued and blasted for it. I notice all those telling them to grow a pair have no actual risk to themselves involved. Just Saying.

Besides we may have all been saved from a shitty movie and if you really crave offensive caricatures of real actual leaders being murdered you can always rent Team America. America, Fuck Yeah, indeed!

wanted to see this movie. Or the hundreds of millions or billions who believe in the principal of free speech.

Gotcha'.

...since it's not the US Government making the threats. I see this more as a "hacker bravado" thing (that I'm quite fascinated by). A few dickheads sitting in their pajamas crippling the media arm of a huge conglomerate such as Sony.

All the old jokes about knock-off electronics having "Sony Guts". Who knew Sony had no guts?

When you have someone intimidating another into not saying something because they don't like it, they are not only fucking with Sony's freedom of speech...they are fucking with YOUR freedom. They are depriving YOU of the right see and hear what Sony has to say. N.K. is a bully.. the only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them. Someone that makes a threat about a movie will make a threat about anything. What's next, will they demand that the NY Times refer to Kim Jong-Un only as "our glorious leader" in print?

What's he going to do, whine about it?

A stupid hack is the best they're going to be able to do.

The government assault on the Occupy movement was the most recent example.

The movie, the hackers etc.

There are a lot of geopolitical shenanigans going on these days, it's getting hard to figure out what the true story is.

FWIW it looks like a mediocre movie and I don't care that it's been canned. However, I know that's the wrong attitude and I should be sticking up for their freedom of speech.

For years to come so the pull it using the threat to cover it up.

Immediate impact = zero.

Potential impact = unknown.

If one doesn't like it, don't go and see it.

This is not the case.

Sony decided on its own the halt distribution.

I fully support Sony's right under the first amendment to make and distribute this movie but the right to free speech does not protect them from some despotic nation collecting data and intelligence on them and using it to blackmail them. They should have secured their shit before taking on this venture.

You don't release a movie about assassinating the leader of another nation then leave all of your data out in the open. They or their surrogates (CHINA) are going to start sniffing around.

Back in 2011 the PlayStation Network was taken down for 23 days and massive amounts of data was stolen. The Sony Corp is notorious at leaving themselves vulnerable to attacks.

What Sony did is equivalent to me posting my address on craigslist along with a photo of a stack of cash then leaving my door wide open. It just attracts the wrong kind of attention and also puts the people living around me at risk or in Sony's case fellow movie distribution companies.

I don't like that some fat pig in North Korea who can barely walk and starves his own people has a say in what an American company can release but Sony gave him and other bad actors leverage because their shitty security protocols and now because of that they and they alone made the decision to pull the film.

A little country portrayed as backwards and technologically illiterate takes down a mega-multinational corporation. If "too big too fail" means "too big to jail" this could be better than Dodd-Frank, which as Warren noted, was flawed because it didn't break the banks up into tiny pieces.

Nope, I don't feel sorry for poor Sony.

SONY give up rights or all Corporations?