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Hacked Sony Emails Reveal That Sony Had Pirated Books About Hacking
An anonymous reader writes Sony has done a lot of aggressive anti-piracy work in their time, which makes it that much funnier that pirated ebooks were found on their servers from the 2014 hacks that just went on to WikiLeaks. Better yet, the pirated books are educational books about hacking called "Inside Cyber Warfare" and "Hacking the Next Generation" from O'Reilly publishers.
Is this Slashdot or The Onion?
I keep hearing about these data dumps from Wikileaks or whoever else is involved with them. But how do we know that any of this allegedly leaked information is actually real? Even if some of it is real, how do we differentiate between what's legit and what might have been hand-crafted to project a certain image?
I see no evidence, or even any indication, that Sony Pirated that book. It could have been purchased by Sony, or even by an employee, and was saved in a private folder on a server share.
Wikileaks, on the other hand, has now very clearly pirated the books.
If they've ever prosecuted anyone for "piracy" something should happen to them just for having "pirated" material on their servers. What jerks.
Most books on computing and "IT security" can be found right from Google as direct download links right from the search results. You don't even have to tip toe into and around spammy sites anymore. This is really true for any generally popular computer book.
Even if they did pirate the books.. so what? I know what news stories are going for here, utter outrage and-or trololol that SONY's pirating things while chasing down pirates.
I mean, the hypocrisy invokes equivalence, no? If SONY pirates some books, that means millions of people should feel vindicated and justified in pirating hundreds of songs and movies.
"that just went on to" is terrible grammar.
Slashdot is linking to Daily Dot is linking to a tweet from the author is linking to a pirated copy of the book!!! AARRRHHH!!!!!!!! They're all going to be charged with Conspiracy to Contributory Indirect Copyright Infringement of whatever the MPAA/RIAA/*AA write in their next bill to sign by their politician/employees.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
Your post is linked to /., you're doomed!
It's a good thing everybody just knows what's ment from context.
Go dirty early.
I don't think Tim O'Reilly cares.
Maybe 15, 20 years ago, I remember reading that someone had opened some (Win 98? Me?) binaries in an editor and found evidence of a warez signature. Google is failing me -- anyone remember this??
Slashdot is linking to Daily Dot is linking to a tweet from the author is linking to a pirated copy of the book!!!
But does the book mention Slashdot? Prosecuting a meta-circular copyright infringement causes any justice department to express an instant China syndrome and sink into the core of the planet.
The link you are referencing was PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK on his twitter. The article in question included the quote from the author, because it was their SOURCE for the entire article.
grand theft auto, a game about robbing raping and murdering, contains a copyright notice.