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Hacked Sony Emails Reveal That Sony Had Pirated Books About Hacking

Posted by timothy on from the elephant-books-all-the-way-down dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Sony pirating e-books? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Um, no it doesn't. That's not even close. It translates to "What is permissible for Jupiter is not permissible for an ox", meaning that gods can do what cattle cannot.

  2. Re:Even if they did pirate the books by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it means that whoever wrote the book should now be entitled to a few bazillion bucks, payable by Sony. Or so says Sony et al. when it's the other way 'round.

    Why is this different now that Sony is accused instead of being the accuser?

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