Sony warns some media outlets to stop reporting on hacked information Published December 15, 2014FoxNews.com Facebook170 Twitter549 livefyre616 Email Print sonyinternal1515.jpg Dec. 2, 2014: Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. (AP) Sony Pictures has reportedly demanded that at least three media outlets stop reporting stories based on documents obtained by hackers who crippled the entertainment giant's computer systems last month.
The New York Times, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter each published stories late Sunday claiming that they had received letters from Sony attorney David Boies saying the documents were "stolen information." The letter also demanded that the outlets either avoid the hacked documents or destroy them if they had already been obtained.
Sony Pictures "does not consent to your possession, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading or making any use" of the documents, The Times quoted Boies's letter to them as saying.
Boies's letter was backed up by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who published an opinion piece in The Times Monday criticizing entertainment journalists for publishing stories based on the hacked data. Sorkin specifically singled out Variety co-editor-in-chief Andrew Wallenstein, who defended stories the publication wrote about the leaks as "newsworthy."
"I’m dying to ask [Wallenstein]," Sorkin wrote, "what part of the studio’s post-production notes on [writer-director] Cameron Crowe's new project is newsworthy."
The studio's internal computer network was breached on Nov. 24 by a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace. It has been suspected that the group has ties to North Korea, which has repeatedly complained about Sony's upcoming comedy release "The Interview," which centers on an assassination attempt against Kim Jong-un. A Pyongyang spokesman denied that the regime played any part in the hack attack earlier this month, but did characterize the breach as a "righteous" event.
The breach has resulted in several weeks worth of embarrassing publicity for Sony, as the hackers made public information about company salaries and business negotiations. Most prominently, a private e-mail conversation between studio co-chairwoman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin included racist remarks about President Barack Obama's movie preferences and insulting barbs directed at actress Angelina Jolie and other big Hollywood names by Rudin.
Among the many projects discussed in the emails was the long-delayed, Sorkin-penned, Rudin-produced biopic of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
The Hollywood Reporter said Sunday that the hackers sent journalists an eighth batch of Sony files, including the e-mail inbox of Sony Pictures Releasing International President Steve O'Dell, which included discussions of how to promote "The Interview."
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Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社 Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha?), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan.[3] Its diversified business is primarily focused on the electronics (TV, Gaming Consoles, Refrigerators), game, entertainment and financial services sectors.[2] The company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets.[4] Sony is ranked 105th on the 2014 list of Fortune Global 500.[5]
Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its four operating segments – Electronics (including video games, network services and medical business), Motion pictures, Music and Financial Services.[6][7][8] These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation (Sony Electronics in the U.S.), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Mobile Communications (formerly Sony Ericsson), and Sony Financial. Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders and third-largest television manufacturer in the world, after Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.
The Sony Group (ソニー・グループ Sonī Gurūpu?) is a Japan-based corporate group primarily focused on the Electronics (such as AV/IT products and components), Game (such as PlayStation), Entertainment (such as motion pictures and music), and Financial Services (such as insurance and banking) sectors. The group consists of Sony Corporation (holding and electronics), Sony Computer Entertainment (games), Sony Pictures Entertainment (motion pictures), Sony Music Entertainment (music), Sony/ATV Music Publishing (music publishing), Sony Financial Holdings (financial services) and others.
Its founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the name from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and also from the English slang word "sonny", since they considered themselves to be "sonny boys", a loan word into Japanese which in the early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men.[4] The company's current slogan is BE MOVED. Their former slogans were make.believe (2009–2014) and like.no.other (2005–2014).
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The best part is, Sony Entertainment helped with the production for the movie Hackers - Staring Angelina Jolie. Irony...
That's not the best part.
The best part is two fold.
A) It shows the absolute hypocrisy that the leftist Hollywood 'elitists' are.
B) When people who exist on gossip, intrigue and scandal have it turned back on them, cry about gossip, intrigue and scandal.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
Hey....GOV ALMIGHTY can read our emails, texts and listen to our cell phone conversations and track us in our cars.....
HOW'S IT FEEL SONY?????
Also just heard last week that all cards with magnetic strips will be replaced with new cards with chips. (same as Europe) they say they are harder to hack into. this is suppose to be implemented by October 2015. we'll see.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Not only does it show how hypocritical the elitists are, but it shows how blind they are to reality and to how warped their point of view is, how out of sync with the rest of America they are. Who dishes dirt on powerful associates, in writing? NOT smart. Their complaint about Ms. Jolie seemed to be based on her wanting a particular director kept available for her project. That doesn't seem spoiled and bratty to me, it seems like a legitimate business concern.
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