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Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look-at-yourself-and-then-make-a-change dept.

wiredmikey writes "Sony once again has found itself in the news surrounding another hacking-related incident. This time around, the breach doesn't appear to involve any lost user data or customer accounts, but instead, some valuable property owned by the record company. Today, several British news outlets have reported that more than 50,000 music tracks have been illegally accessed and downloaded by hackers, including a large number from the late Michael Jackson. Sony bought the catalog from Jackson's estate for $250 million in 2010, giving the company distribution rights to the unreleased music. The attack reportedly occurred shortly after details of the massive PlayStation Network breach last April, but details were only revealed this past weekend."

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  1. Re:Good marketing by DarkOx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I certainly how those were the only copies and the hackers deleted them. If there is one thing Sony does not need its more money, and if there is one thing I don't want to have to suffer hearing on the play list of every pub, is more of that man's terrible music.

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  2. Re:I wonder by ZeroSumHappiness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. They can now just conflate crackers, hackers AND pirates and get even stricter laws into enforcement. This isn't a security problem on their end of course. This is because we're too soft on those dirty music downloaders.

  3. Re:why? by AvitarX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's fucking music tracks they were not releasing to cash in at a later point.

    This was going to be available at some point in the future, and it's better for society that it's available now. Locked up in a vault they had zero value.

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  4. Re:why? by jesseck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree with you that there security is beyond poor, but land-locking the entire system as a solution to me doesn't seem like the best course of action.

    I guess it depends on how valuable the item is- if RIAA were to be counting, what was stolen was trillions of dollars. A thumbdrive and a dedicated admin to administer the landlocked system is a fraction of the value in that case.

    Of course, in the real world, Sony knew the music was not worth trillions, and that is why it was connected to the Internet.