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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mmm 4k content

[muphin]

Whens Pied Piper going to release their Algorithm?

Re:mmm 4k content

[Anonymous Coward]

That would be never.

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I have been working on getting around that for 25 years. It is not possible (doesnt stop me from keep trying though). Their theory holds up very well. The only way around it is to add more 'channels'. That does not exist. The best compression algs these days are ones which remove information and then feed it into other compression algs which can do good on that massaged data. PNG is a good example where the upper part is a massaging of the data then fed into deflate.

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?

[Gravis Zero]

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.

are you kidding me?! despite their evil intentions being revealed ahead of time, the still went on and released Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. i can accept the possibility that the first movie was a misstep but making a sequel is just a crime against humanity!

Re:Wiki-Enquirer?

[Anonymous Coward]

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/112743

FW: Heads up - Potential Call from Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman & Call from Dodd regarding $$$ for Republicans
Email-ID 112743
Date 2013-11-07 21:57:25 UTC
From keith_weaver@spe.sony.com
To leah_weil@spe.sony.com

FW: Heads up - Potential Call from Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman & Call from Dodd regarding $$$ for Republicans

I’m going to start working on the TPP (and overall trade issues) briefing regardless of who goes (or no one goes) – despite the focus on Investor day, I don’t want folks unaware of what’s going on.

More to follow.

From: Weaver, Keith
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 1:51 PM
To: Lynton, Michael; Blake, Jeff
Cc: Weil, Leah; Diamond, David
Subject: Heads up - Potential Call from Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman & Call from Dodd regarding $$$ for Republicans
Importance: High

Michael,

I wanted to give you a heads up regarding a couple of issues, as you may be contacted in the next day or so.

Potential contact from IGER: I understand you may be contacted by Bob Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman to invite you (+ one) to a meeting at Disney next Friday (the 15th). While I’m not aware of the details of this meeting (time or agenda), my sense is that much of the discussion will center on the TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP, which is a pending multilateral trade agreement with 12 countries that boarder the Pacific Ocean) – you’ll recall this was one of the key topics of your meeting with Froman and your peers at the White House last year. It seems as though these negotiations are drawing to a close this year and the President/Froman want key industries saying positive things about the benefits. The trick is it’s a closed process, so we don’t know how IP is handled in the text. Should this meeting come to fruition and you’re inclined to attend, I’ll prepare a briefing for you and Jeff.

Call from Dodd re NRCC/Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte: Chairman Goodlatte has established a new fundraising committee that would allow contributions to his effort WITHOUT giving to the NRCC (all of the studios had the same sensitivity on this as we did). Dodd is likely to call you with this news, tell you that the studio should support with $40k each, and tell you about the tentative date/time for this fundraiser (likely a lunch on 11/22). Our PAC can give $15k, the rest would need to come from individual execs.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

KW

The Sony docs and emails are chock full of this stuff. Serious stuff like an almost this almost quid pro quo to Republican Congress members for TPP goodies . The fact the media only concentrates on celebrity bullshit is not Wikileaks fault.

Re:Wiki-Enquirer?

[bloodhawk]

I wouldn't even say it is interesting from a business perspective. 2 years ago 4k was already well under way, everyone that was producing OS's, media players or consumption devices was requesting content for testing.

Re:Wiki-Enquirer?

[nickweller]

@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."

"I understand you may be contacted by Bob Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman .. my sense is that much of the discussion will center on the TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP, which is a pending multilateral trade agreement with 12 countries that boarder the Pacific Ocean) – you’ll recall this was one of the key topics of your meeting with Froman and your peers at the White House last year. It seems as though these negotiations are drawing to a close this year and the President/Froman want key industries saying positive things about the benefits." ref

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.

Re:Wiki-Enquirer?

[AmiMoJo]

There's nothing in here that's not standard corporate negotiation

If convert political donations and lobbying about TPP are "standard corporate negotiation" then I think that needs to be exposed. It's kind of an affront to democracy, you know?

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?

Wikileaks

[fustakrakich]

Giving the best in entertainment news, from Sony to Hurricane Anna. So lame

Give us the good shit on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Then I'll believe they got something.

Re:Is this a public service?

[nickweller]

Malware emailed to a system administrator (who opened-and-ran the malware), can hardly be called sophisticated.

Re:Is this a public service?

[Jiro]

There's a reason why a business' emails are internal - they're not designed for the world to see, as they discuss internal strategies, planning, projects, research, personal reactions to presentations, HR stuff, and more.

Internal strategy over buying politicians isn't really "internal", or at least shouldn't be. When the politician passes a law because he's bought, no judge will be impressed if you say "that law was an internal Sony matter so I shouldn't go to jail".

Who cares

[drinkypoo]

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."

Who gives a shit? We're not entitled to read a dump from sony to determine what their future business plans are, not that I give a shit who does, but that's not actually what's interesting. What's interesting is what laws has Sony deliberately broken since the last dump. Since they always do, I want to know what it was. I don't even care a little bit that Sony is investigating 4k streaming, which is not even a little bit of a surprise. I want to see Sony held over the coals, not masturbated over by Apple Insider.