North Korean Hackers Attack On Sony
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I had my doubts it was NK, but turns out it may just be.
Feds Link Hack to North Korea as Sony Cancels Release
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This kind of shit behavior used to get you your shit pushed in;
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Of course Obama being the bitch that he is will just ramble on about redlines and if they hack someone else again he will give another redline ultimatum. NK is a little shit of a nation that should of been handled fucking decades ago instead of this fucking backwards ass appeasement that continually leads to stupid shit like this that just fucks us over and over.
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Of course Obama being the bitch that he is will just ramble on about redlines and if they hack someone else again he will give another redline ultimatum. NK is a little shit of a nation that should of been handled fucking decades ago instead of this fucking backwards ass appeasement that continually leads to stupid shit like this that just fucks us over and over.
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I much prefer this order by Jefferson to the bullshit appeasement of today:
Jefferson ordered naval leaders to "protect our commerce andchastise their insolence-- by sinking, burning or destroying their ships and vessels wherever you shall find them," according to U.S. naval documents.
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I do not understand the surprise and rage here. Sony and theater chains are corporations whose only reason for existing is to make money.
If even a couple percent of your normal customer base decides to stay home because they're afraid of the threats, then they lose far more money running the movie than they do censoring it. Its a no brainer. You can bitch about freedom of speech all you want, but these companies know where the money is.
This movie cost $40 million. If it's successful, it can maybe make $120 million. Well, last year around this time, Frozen made over ten times that. So a 10% reduction in customers for that movie alone due to the threats and they're in the red already. And that's just one movie. They have 15 others they need to sell.
Even if running the movie only costs them 2% of their customers, that's a far bigger loss than not running it. This is why even nonviolent vocal censorship campaigns are so effective. You don't need to hit a lot of customers to make something uneconomical. The vocal minority is enough by itself.
If even a couple percent of your normal customer base decides to stay home because they're afraid of the threats, then they lose far more money running the movie than they do censoring it. Its a no brainer. You can bitch about freedom of speech all you want, but these companies know where the money is.
This movie cost $40 million. If it's successful, it can maybe make $120 million. Well, last year around this time, Frozen made over ten times that. So a 10% reduction in customers for that movie alone due to the threats and they're in the red already. And that's just one movie. They have 15 others they need to sell.
Even if running the movie only costs them 2% of their customers, that's a far bigger loss than not running it. This is why even nonviolent vocal censorship campaigns are so effective. You don't need to hit a lot of customers to make something uneconomical. The vocal minority is enough by itself.