Sony chickens out, cancels “The Interview”

Good evening. This story just broke. It seems that Sony, which is not known for computer and network competence, has announced that it is canceling the release of the Seth Rogen and James Franco film, “The Interview.”

Now I will state for the record, I had no intention of paying a dime to see this movie. It held no interest for me. However, Sony, which was hacked a few weeks ago, started receiving terrorist threats if the film was shown. After several theater chains announced they were pulling the movie, Sony caved in and pulled the whole thing from distribution. Here are a few details from Variety:

With theater chains defecting en masse, Sony Pictures Entertainment has pulled the planned Christmas Day release of “The Interview.” In announcing the decision to cancel the holiday debut, Sony hit back at the hackers who threatened movie theaters and moviegoers and who have terrorized the studio and its employees for weeks.

“Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails, and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale – all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like,” the statement reads.

“We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public,” it continues. “We stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome.”

The movie was a comedy about a television host who is granted an interview with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. The CIA asks them to kill Jong-un and the two idiots agree. I think you can see why I wasn’t interested in seeing this movie. Boring doesn’t begin to describe it. However, this wasn’t the problem. The problem here is North Korea making threats about something they don’t like. Then the hackers who broke into Sony’s network, and from what I’ve been reading, that wasn’t hard to do, started issuing threats last Tuesday.

Tuesday’s message accompanied another data dump. It threatened violence on theaters that showed “The Interview” and people who attend screenings. “The world will be full of fear,” the message reads. “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)”

Could North Korea attack theaters in the United States? Possibly. They have one of the largest special operations groups in the world, and they are both vicious and fanatical. North Korea also has a history of attacking South Korea, and recently torpedoed a ship. The question is, would they try something that stuipid in the United States, or frankly anywhere else that showed the film?

Even though Kim Jong-un is nuts and rules a country full of crazies, an attack by his forces on theaters in the United States would be an instant restart of the Korean War. For those of you who failed lunch history, (Meaning that SCoaMF Obama), the Korean War is not over. We have been living under a truce since 1953, and either side could start up the shooting if they wanted to.

If North Korean commandos, smuggled into the United States, started shooting up movie theaters, there is little doubt a few of them would be killed, either by police, or citizens who were carrying guns, leaving no doubt that North Korea was responsible. Granted, I could see Obama and his minions trying to downplay the whole thing, even to the point of blaming it on the Tea Party, but all that would achieve would be the near certainty that he would be impeached. (Even the Democrats wouldn’t be able to protect him under those circumstances)

Now I have no love for Sony. These are the same morons who thought it was a terrific idea to sell music CD’s with a rootkit that crippled users computers and also threw them wide open to hackers. The only way to clear that thing out was a full erasure of the hard drive and a reloading of the operating system. I understand the Pentagon was not amused by their brilliant idea. After having to repaid a large number of computers…well, lets just say that I’ve her rumors that an airstrike on Sony’s headquarters was being planned.

As I’ve already said, I had no intention of seeing this movie. Saying that, I think Sony was, besides incompetent with their network security, cowardly in caving in to North Korean bullying. They should have put it out the film and thumbed their corporate noses and that little pile of dog droppings. They just threw away millions in free advertising. Oh well, it’ll be out on DVD soon and the actors have already been paid for their work.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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