SONY hack: Difference between theft and leak

So, apparently, Sony will receive $95 million in insurance money if it never releases the film, hence no DVD or VOD plans. I know pre-release buzz among critics has not been good. Any chance Sony was worried it was going to flop and using this episode as an excuse so it can collect the $95 million? The film cost only $44 million to make, so the $95 million might be a nice windfall if Sony thought it was going to crater at the box office.

 

I would assume there has to be a legitimate reason it wasn't released. Link?

 

Not so fast. Figured it couldn't be that simple.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/18/insurance-may-not-cover-sonys-100-million-interview-loss/

 

I don't follow what you mean?

 

From the link:

Sony is going to have a tough time recouping the nearly $100 million spent on making and marketing its now-shelved movie, “The Interview,” experts said Thursday.

Despite the cyber-terrorist hackers’ threats of violence at theaters that showed the Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy, it would be hard to cash in on an insurance policy on terrorism claims, according to insurance consultant Eric Moody.

The term “act of terrorism” has to be certified by the federal government — and it usually needs the damage to have occurred within the US, said Moody, VP of Entertainment at Frankel & Associates, the Los Angeles brokerage with a focus on movie, TV and concert promoters.

While Sony has suffered damage to its infrastructure as a result of hackers who shut down the company’s communications network, the government has been careful about how it is describing those acts, he said.

 

Been thinking and isn't there really only one man who is an insider in both Hollywood and North Korea and has the brains to pull something like this off?

 

Call up a few Luca Brasi characters (come on now, a mega billion international corporation knows a few of these people available at short notice), send them to track down some of the hackers involved, And. Kill. Them.

That'll end all the "hackers won, got off scot-free" talk.

 

Alas, Star, the hackers involved are almost surely living in China, and are contract employees of the People's Liberation Army security department who took on some freelance work with the tacit approval of their superiors.

 

Maybe; maybe not. China is one of the big boys itself; it has its own interests in preventing nutty-kookoo rogue nations (like NK) from carrying out major hack attacks.

 

China's security establishment is even larger than ours. so it's reasonable to assume it's even more full of empire builders, rogue operators, internal conflicts and left hand not knowing what the right hand's doing than ours, too.

 

George Clooney weighs in - "Here’s the brilliant thing they did. You embarrass them first, so that no one gets on your side. After the Obama joke, no one was going to get on the side of Amy, and so suddenly, everyone ran for the hills. Look, I can’t make an excuse for that joke, it is what it is, a terrible mistake. Having said that, it was used as a weapon of fear, not only for everyone to disassociate themselves from Amy but also to feel the fear themselves. They know what they themselves have written in their emails, and they’re afraid."

http://deadline.com/2014/12/george-...-north-korea-cyberattack-petition-1201329988/

 

Amy what you gonna do, I think Kim jong's in love with you......