Sony Pictures Demands That News Agencies Delete ‘Stolen’ Data by Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes.
From the article:
Sony Pictures Entertainment warned media outlets on Sunday against using the mountains of corporate data revealed by hackers who raided the studio’s computer systems in an attack that became public last month.
In a sharply worded letter sent to news organizations, including The New York Times, David Boies, a prominent lawyer hired by Sony, characterized the documents as “stolen information” and demanded that they be avoided, and destroyed if they had already been downloaded or otherwise acquired.
The studio “does not consent to your possession, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading or making any use” of the information, Mr. Boies wrote in the three-page letter, which was distributed Sunday morning.
Since I wrote about the foolish accusations against North Korea by Sony, I thought it only fair to warn you that the idlers at Sony have decided to threaten everyone else.
A rather big leap from trash talking about North Korea to accusing the rest of the world of being interested in their incestuous bickering.
I certainly don’t want a copy of their movies, released or unreleased. Too much noise and too little signal for the space they would take. But, since Sony has gotten on its “let’s threaten everybody” hobby-horse, I do hope the location of the Sony documents suddenly appears in many more inboxes. patrick@durusau.net. 😉
How would you display choice snippets and those who uttered them when a webpage loads?
The bitching and catching by Sony are sure signs that something went terribly wrong internally. The current circus is an attempt to distract the public from that failure. Probably a member of management with highly inappropriate security clearance because “…they are important!”
Inappropriate security clearances for management to networks is a sign of poor systems administration. I wonder when that shoe is going to drop?