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12-17-2014 , 10:51 PM

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Sony just said there are no plans to ever release it on any platform.

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12-17-2014 , 11:01 PM

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Just watched the Team America trailer and I think there's legitimate contextual differences between that and The Interview. i.e. TA's plot doesn't revolve around an assassination

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12-17-2014 , 11:09 PM

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Kim Jong Il dies in Team America and he was the villain in it
Kim Jong Un listens to Katy Perry and becomes James Franco's friend and probably doesn't die in The Interview.

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12-17-2014 , 11:29 PM

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Surely the Jihadist terrorists didn't like Zero Dark-Thirty or any of 100 different movies using them as villains. And these terrorists threaten people in the US with physical violence. Yet nobody is stopping those movies. Cyber hacking doesn't make any difference here does it? This Interview cancellation makes no sense except maybe that it was just a bad movie that Sony didn't want to spend more money on. Maybe I'm missing something.

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12-17-2014 , 11:36 PM

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Sony just said there are no plans to ever release it on any platform.

I hope someone hacks Sony and releases it online.

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12-17-2014 , 11:39 PM

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Just now saw a tv commercial for the movie. Guess they couldn't pull them all and save some money.

So that clown is now telling us what movies we can see in our own country? Where's SEAL Team 6?

Freedom isn't free.

No there's a hefty ****in' fee.

And if you dont throw in your buck-oh five, who will?

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12-17-2014 , 11:41 PM

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how did Sony allow another high profile hack happen again?

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12-18-2014 , 03:28 AM

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how did Sony allow another high profile hack happen again?

Whoever did this hack were ****ing pros, they got pretty much EVERYTHING if you see what stuff is being leaked. They probably also got the interview so ironically some high up North Korean government officials have probably seen it

I'd be very surprised if North-Koreans actually did it, from everything we know IT knowledge is a joke inside N-K. THey probably hired some top Chinese hackers though I wonder why any top hackers would do something so high risk, though maybe I'm underestimating how much money N-K would have to spend on **** like this

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12-18-2014 , 03:33 AM

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It's a gesture. Obama planning to normalize relations with North Korea too.

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12-18-2014 , 03:36 AM

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How reliant is the NY Times? Lots of highly interesting speculation in this article including MURICA their feelings on this subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/wo...y-hacking.html

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12-18-2014 , 03:40 AM

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Somebody has the movie apparantly

SPOILER FROM THE INTERVIEW (lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYw...ature=youtu.be

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12-18-2014 , 04:08 AM

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Am I the only one who wonders how America would react if North Korea released a movie about 2 idiots plotting to kill Obama?

Everyone would watch it ldo

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12-18-2014 , 04:14 AM

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I remember seeing green hornet and suspect rogen could be the one making the threat not to release a his pos movie

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12-18-2014 , 04:14 AM

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How reliant is the NY Times?

About as reliable as a US paper gets, probably top 5 even to its critics. It's an institution. And one of the authors in the byline (Sanger) is first-rate.

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12-18-2014 , 04:15 AM

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This **** will be up on torrents any day now

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12-18-2014 , 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by bbfg

I'd be very surprised if North-Koreans actually did it

Considering NK kidnaps foreign nationals with expertise in specific areas, in addition to sending their own citizens to be trained by experts when they feel they can't do better internally, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this was NK.

While some fun US/People mag stuff has come out of the hack, its blatantly a terrorist act. There should be serious repercussions coming from not only the US, but the rest of the world. I guess assuming there is a very credible case that it was actually state-sponsored. You'd hate for the US to mobilize international action on the back of what turned out to be (deliberate?) falsehoods.

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12-18-2014 , 08:32 AM

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Where does Angelina Jolie fit in with all of this?

Are the cancelling Unbroken? I am looking forward to watching that!

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12-18-2014 , 08:53 AM

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This is apparently not true at all. nK apparently puts a lot of work into training some really impressive hackers. There was a post on reddit with sources about it but I'm on phone so you'll just have to take my word for it.

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12-18-2014 , 09:07 AM

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fea...543573839.html

Tons of similar search results

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12-18-2014 , 09:10 AM

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if sony doesnt release it online they really sux

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12-18-2014 , 09:12 AM

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What if they just wait for North Korea to release it online?

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12-18-2014 , 09:18 AM

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Ever wonder if Sony was just worried about more e-mails being released and a Donald Sterling controversy and gave in?

Though many theatre chains would not show it

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12-18-2014 , 09:20 AM

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The movie has been seen by a lot of critics and there have been a bunch of special screenings already. It will definitely be leaked by someone at some point.

I find it hard to believe that sony will never release this at theatres or on Blu Ray. They spent $50 million on the movie, not including marketing, which seemed like a lot.

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12-18-2014 , 09:24 AM

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i wouldnt be surprised if they release in non us countries and then us after.

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12-18-2014 , 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by aoFrantic

Kim Jong Il dies in Team America and he was the villain in it
Kim Jong Un listens to Katy Perry and becomes James Franco's friend and probably doesn't die in The Interview.

Spoiler alert: he does die. NPR said so.

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Originally Posted by RunDownHouse.

While some fun US/People mag stuff has come out of the hack, its blatantly a terrorist act.

The hack itself or the threat? Because if hacking other countries for nefarious purposes is terrorism things dont look to good for USA#1.