WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents

Newsweek is one of many outlets to report that Wikileaks' latest dump is a trove of Sony's company emails and other documents that consists of even more individual pieces than the 200,000-plus leaked in April. Included, says the Newsweek story, are "276,394 Sony Corp. communications, including email, travel calendars, contact lists, expense reports and private files." One interesting tidbit revealed by the documents thus revealed, spotted by Apple Insider, is that "Apple requested [from Sony] 4K content for potential digital distribution and on-demand services testing nearly two years ago, suggesting the company has been exploring ultra high-definition streaming for some time."

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Wiki-Enquirer?

[Anonymous Coward]

How is this at all what Wikileaks is supposed to be for? At this point it seems more like crass voyeurism than any type of serious attempt to shine a light on corporate misconduct. Sure, Apple asking Sony for 4k content is interesting from a business perspective, but wrong-doing that needed to be exposed it is not. All this seems like is a massive invasion of privacy, as I don't buy for a second that Sony's position "at the centre of a geo-political conflict." in any way justifies such an un-curated document dump.

Re:Wiki-Enquirer?

[Etcetera]

How is this at all what Wikileaks is supposed to be for? At this point it seems more like crass voyeurism than any type of serious attempt to shine a light on corporate misconduct.

Sony has done a lot of evil in the past (remember rootkits?). By dumping this dataset, Wikileaks is doing two things:

1) Airing Sony's misdeeds, with the possibility of bringing them to justice. Possibly getting tried in the court of public opinion.

2) Encouraging other companies to not be evil. If everyone knows that their illegal activities might come to light, it'll act as a deterrent.

Note that the 4K stuff was picked up by Apple Insider, and consider their mandate.

Hold off a bit before passing judgement. If a more journalistic outlet finds something newsworthy, it might paint the data dump as worthwhile.

Oh, for God's sake. GTF over yourself.

Sony Music (aka BMG) 10 years ago has absolutely nothing the fuck to do with Sony Pictures today.

There's nothing in here that's not standard corporate negotiation -- just trade secrets, voyeuristic awareness by Internet douchebags, and information primarily useful to its competitors. And a whole hell of a lot of invasion of privacy for Sony Pictures employees.

Re:Wiki-Enquirer?

[gsslay]

1) Airing Sony's misdeeds, with the possibility of bringing them to justice.

What misdeeds are being brought to air here?

2) Encouraging other companies to not be evil. If everyone knows that their illegal activities might come to light, it'll act as a deterrent.

So this is like taking a random child out of the class and beating them in front of the others, just so they know what'll happen to them if they're naughty.

Hold off a bit before passing judgement. If a more journalistic outlet finds something newsworthy, it might paint the data dump as worthwhile.

No, actually it's like arresting someone because maybe they've done something, then looking for the evidence afterwards. If none found, meh, tough luck.

so what's sony doing about this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously nothing; if they can't secure their own corporate network, what tells me my personal info and credit card number is safe?

Right to privacy

[elysianfields320]

Much as Sony had this coming to them, how is releasing all this private information a public service? I rather enjoy the amount of privacy I currently have, and think that people and companies have a right to conduct certain matters privately. The fact that Sony lobbies should surprise no one.