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Anonymous Claims They Will Release "The Interview" Themselves

Posted by samzenpus on from the If-you-cancel-my-release-I-shall-become-more-popular-than-you-can-possibly-imagine dept.

An anonymous reader writes In a series of tweets the hacker collective Anonymous says they will release "The Interview" to the masses if Sony won't. A few of the tweets read: "Seriously @Sony we warned you. We infiltrated your systems long before North Korea. We thought you'd take it as a warning and fix your s@#t." and "We're not with either side, we just want to watch the movie too and soon you too will be joining us. Sorry, @SonyPictures."

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  1. Marketing? by joe_frisch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sony makes a, by all reports, terrible movie. Suddenly the hack gives it a tremendous amount of press coverage and controversy. When they finally relent and release it, will the overall ticket sales be up or down?

    Nah, Sony is much too honest and honorable of a company to consider such a thing......

    1. Re: Marketing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      sure, it boasts sales - but having worked for sony pictures, i can tell you, them not releasing the movie sounds more like they are glad not to have to deal with this (allegedly) turd anymore. it saves them millions of marketing costs if they don't.

      i've heard that most sony employees only just now are getting their computer access back - most of them have been working with pen and paper for the last 2 1/2 weeks (except for a rudimentary email program that was shipped to them on new harddrives). so i guess the cost of that alone more than nullifies the profit they could make even off a profitable "interview". and then there's the publicity cost of sony's boss writing racist jokes and bad things about actors. and the loss of some movies getting leaked.

      also, btw. anonymous telling them to fix their shit? as if anybody could 100% secure an enterprise with thousands of employees and dozens of different it-systems. any dedicated hacker could and will be able to hack them.