Attorney David Boies has been hired by Sony, and has been sending threatening letters to various media outlets demanding that they destroy the stolen information that they published, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Seth Rogen is on Sony's side, stating to Howard Stern on Monday that the media is giving the hackers "exactly what these criminals want" by covering the leaked information.
When Lisa Kudrow spoke to the HuffPost Show on Friday, she stated, "Don't write anything you don't want broadcast. How come I know you don't write anything you don't want broadcast in an email? How come I know that? Who's advising people?...I think we need to have more boundaries and accountability and a little personal responsibility for what we say."
Who do you agree with?
Lisa. Smart lady.
ReplyDeleteThey both have good points. I don't think it's any different at any other studio either.
ReplyDeleteIn general, I think the media is getting a little bit smarter about carrying out the agendas of not very nice people. For example, during the Sydney siege yesterday, the local media apparently had a video from the killer, but refused to show it. Why give this creep - or any kidnapper or murderer - the notoriety they crave? Very few media organizations reproduced or linked to the nude actress images from the iCloud hack - I follow a lot of different news sites, and I've never seen any of them.
ReplyDeleteAustralian media was a bit annoyed (appropriately so) that they'd held off releasing the lone rat's name and American media was blabbering it everywhere. I had a live stream from Australia up yesterday.
DeleteExactly you don't want to give wackjobs the PR they are looking for and especially anyone that purports to support ISIS. Love to know why this guy wasn't in jail though. He makes Bill Cosby look like a nice guy with his multitude of sexual assault charges.
DeleteAmerican media needs to learn restraint. Sorry but I would not broadcast any of those beheading videos.
Tina-actually i think you do hv to show the awful videos so we dont have beheading deny-ers, like we have holocaust deny-ers.
DeleteOne thing any corporate drone worth a year-end bonus knows is that if you don't want something to get out, it must be *SPOKEN* only. Not on a sticky note, not in a letter, not in an email, not in a text, not in skywriting, not delivered by carrier pigeon, not engraved on vellum.
ReplyDelete'Twas ever thus, Sony dumbasses.
They deserve to be vilified purely for their level of dumbassedness.
Exactly - unless someone you trust is recording you as you speak. Of course, that cannot be used in a court of law, but it can certainly be used in a court of public opinion.
DeleteAgree with Kno.
DeleteCall me paranoid, but this hacking is one of the reasons I don't trust anybody. If I don't want anybody knowing something I don't tell a soul. You really never know who you can trust so I don't trust anyone.
DeleteWords of my Bus. Com. Professor "digital media is FOREVER, once you hit send that missive has a life of its own.
DeleteTeam Kno. Just like the nudie pix. If you don't want them getting out there, don't take them. That's the only way to make sure.
DeleteMost of the Sony executives were using their work email accounts, and in my world had less of an expectation of privacy than people do when using their personal emails or iClouds, like Jennifer Lawrence and some of the other women whose photos were hacked. Everyone knows the IT guys at work can read your work emails.
ReplyDeleteFrom a privacy standpoint, I found what happened to Mel Gibson and Donald Sterling much creepier. Those (also not very nice) guys thought they were having personal conversations with a lover/ex-lover, only to find this private communication recorded and then on the news.
I agree about the recording thing. The most egregious example I've encountered was the Jodi Arias trial where the recording of a phone sex conversation she had with the victim was played in open court. That was horrendous. That man had NO idea where that conversation would end up. It was heartless & cruel and evil.
DeleteI agree with Kudrow. Don't tell anybody something or write something or take a picture of something that you don't want everyone else to know. The most intoxicating phrase in the English language may be: "This is a secret, so don't tell anybody, but...". We've all said it. We've all had it said to us and then told someone else. Add hackers into the mix and nothing is safe.
ReplyDeleteForget about how the world should be. It's never been that way. Never.
Lisa is right. Anyone who works at a company with an email policy is aware of the company owning all your emails and/or that your co-workers could somehow get a hold of them.
ReplyDeleteAlways be professional and speak your mind away from the office where the convo will be strictly confidential.
I believe this hack will help to create some laws about the distribution of sensitive information. after all it is illegal to take mail from a mailbox. I can see the application of similar rules now with electronic mail. It was just a matter of time.
I wonder if the next step will be disclosing the real name behind people's internet comments. That would be a pretty bloody day. Lots of mild-mannered people exposed as violent trolls.
ReplyDeleteOh, be still my heart!
DeleteWith all due respect, i believe the fundamental issue of hacking is being overlooked. Work emails may not have expectation of privacy within workplace, but certainly should not be expected to be common public knowledge. Same with the hacked pictures. Anything that is/ was posted not for public consumption and then hacked should be unlawful. Sure, we're all getting a titter over the problems of the rich and famous in business, but those posts were never meant for us. Hacker shld be prosceuted to full extent of law, imo.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, certainly what one puts on electronic media shld be very carefully thought out, and not a bunch of brain fart crap. But even so, if it wasnt meant fir our eyes, we shldnt be seeing it.
Kind of ot, but not really- as usual , in all thus shitstorm, the talk is of firing this Amy person. A woman. Big surprise.
I agree
Delete#TeamLisa on this one. Hacking is part of the "cost of doing business" when using the Internet, like it or not. If I never wanted my credit card hijacked, I would never shop online again. When that happens from time to time, I accept it as part of the cost of doing business online. Same with naked pics: if you take them, expect them to be leaked. That is the world in which we live these days. And emails are not private. If you're company's not reading them, the NSA is. Don't say anything in writing on your computer that you wouldn't want published. That's just how the world works today. If anyone still has an "expectation of privacy," they should wise up and get a lot more guarded (see George Clooney's carefully worded emails)
ReplyDeleteIsn't it ironic that last year, Hollywood thought Snowden and Wikileaks were heroes, but now that Sony got Assanged, they're finding the release of all these emails morally repugnant?
ReplyDeleteAgree snarky. Fir the life if me, i dont see snowden as a heri. A traitor, yes. And you can bet he's endlessly sorry he ended up in russia of all places, altho he wld NEVER admit it. Got no love for assange either. As far as i can tell, the adulation is because they were brave enough to expose goverment reading iut shut. Really??!! If anyone thinks the govt cant find out ANYTHING about u whenever they want, ive a bridge in bklyn to sell you.
DeleteHILARIOUS!
DeleteI totally agree with Lisa. When you use your work email account, your work phone, your work letterhead - all of those things are subject to the restrictions of the work environment, which means some dude in IT could conceivably (and legally) reading your email or monitoring your calls.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who was a teenage girl with a diary and an irritating brother knows the value of careful wording.
+1 Seven, and I love the diary/little bro analogy. Speaking from experience, it's so true!
DeleteSeth needs to take a lesson from Lisa. He's obviously too wrapped up in himself to realize he's acting like a douch-bag about this.
ReplyDeleteLisa's smarts did not rub off on him during the filming of The Comeback. I love that show. Lisa has more acting chops in her pinky than the other 5 Friends combined. I almost got teary after Sunday's episode. Okay I like Matt LeBlanc in Episodes.
DeleteI agree with them both. Don't put anything in an e-mail you don't want broadcast, but at the same time, if someone does hack, it should be treated as a crime.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the two opinions are mutually exclusive.
ReplyDeletei have to take the side of Lisa because those Sony emails are just too entertaining! i want a big budget movie about the emails.
ReplyDeleteMy parents each gave me a piece of advice when I was you, like 10 years old. From my dad: never put anything on film or in writing that you wouldn't want your entire class to see/read. From my mom: whether you did it or not, keep your mouth shut until the lawyer gets there. Both invaluable.
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