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November 29, 2014 at 10:50 pm

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tryptameanie

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I heard about the breach a few days ago but I didn’t realize 11 TERABYTES of data had been pilfered. A few upcoming films have been leaked and private keys for what’s believed to be a music piracy detection tool but with that much data there must be plenty of interest left to come.

Sony Movies Leak Online After Hack Attack | TorrentFreak

Will it stop Sony being bastards, nope, will it make them even a little sorry for infecting peoples PC’s with a rootkit after playing a legally purchased CD, I doubt it.
November 30, 2014 at 12:58 am

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Digital Buddha

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yeah fuck sony
November 30, 2014 at 1:01 am

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tryptameanie

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@Digital Buddha 575570 wrote:

yeah fuck sony

Indeed brother. Amen to that.
November 30, 2014 at 1:03 am

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Digital Buddha

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not the greatest of companies besides the xbox is better
November 30, 2014 at 1:12 am

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tryptameanie

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It’s similar with many media companies, they’re all at the very least trying to fuck as much money out of every customer they can, like getting laws restricting the copying of purchased CD’s/DVD’s/Blu-Ray disc so you can’t legally have a back-up of your original, or a copy stored on a HDD. Then it seems a shitload of the money they do make seems to be aimed squarely at pirates and getting astonishing, life destroying awards of compensation by courts.
November 30, 2014 at 1:41 am

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Digital Buddha

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fuck ’em

like when metallica went so hard after napster… like guys come on your music isn’t that good
November 30, 2014 at 1:43 am

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tryptameanie

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Exactly. So stuck in their old ways to even consider stepping towards the future, so yes, fuck em lol.
November 30, 2014 at 6:25 am

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Angel

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@Tryptameanie 575589 wrote:

Exactly. So stuck in their old ways to even consider stepping towards the future, so yes, fuck em lol.

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November 30, 2014 at 12:19 pm

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tryptameanie

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@Angel 575606 wrote:

:sign0023:

Oh the movie exective has arived, you treacherous witch.

Maybe thig will cheer you up[:

http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-admin-sentenced-to-five-months-prison-141130/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29
December 1, 2014 at 11:27 pm

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General Lighting

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The real Sony died many years ago along with Akio Morita and they were going downhill during the 1990s anyway; more recently they appear to have picked up the worst business practices of both USA and Japan. TBH the saga of this hack and that the feds and Sony are seriously investigating the possibility of North Korea’s involvement is more interesting than their shitty movies anyway; although these hacks can have a lot of collateral damage to individuals such as employees and contractors.

“Sony” still make decent analogue AV equipment though its manufacture is nowadays subcontracted out to uncredited companies in Malaysia and China and all the Japanese companies are or were guilty of various bad practices from deliberate incompatibilities, planned obsolescene, shipping defective (and sometimes even dangerous) equipment (even premium priced stuff) as well as gross environmental contamination of the whole of SE Asia – it was only after they managed to nuke their own country a few years ago Tokyo cleaned up its act a bit.

A lot of the decent stuff Sony make such as amplifiers/receivers (analogue equipment that does not have an internet connection cannot be used spy on you remotely) is actually from the Aiwa factory in Malaysia which they bought around 1994; ironically Aiwa’s kit was often cheaper but equally full featured and more powerful but had a more “brash” style. I am not surprised the movie/content production arms (based in the USA) behave as they do; and that they become a target for hackers..
December 2, 2014 at 5:03 am

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Digital Buddha

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@General Lighting 576163 wrote:

The real Sony died many years ago along with Akio Morita and they were going downhill during the 1990s anyway; more recently they appear to have picked up the worst business practices of both USA and Japan. TBH the saga of this hack and that the feds and Sony are seriously investigating the possibility of North Korea’s involvement is more interesting than their shitty movies anyway; although these hacks can have a lot of collateral damage to individuals such as employees and contractors.

“Sony” still make decent analogue AV equipment though its manufacture is nowadays subcontracted out to uncredited companies in Malaysia and China and all the Japanese companies are or were guilty of various bad practices from deliberate incompatibilities, planned obsolescene, shipping defective (and sometimes even dangerous) equipment (even premium priced stuff) as well as gross environmental contamination of the whole of SE Asia – it was only after they managed to nuke their own country a few years ago Tokyo cleaned up its act a bit.

A lot of the decent stuff Sony make such as amplifiers/receivers (analogue equipment that does not have an internet connection cannot be used spy on you remotely) is actually from the Aiwa factory in Malaysia which they bought around 1994; ironically Aiwa’s kit was often cheaper but equally full featured and more powerful but had a more “brash” style. I am not surprised the movie/content production arms (based in the USA) behave as they do; and that they become a target for hackers..

GL you have reached power level 5000 with 5k posts take a bow and have a cigar
December 2, 2014 at 9:52 am

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tryptameanie

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WOW 5000 posts,take a bow indeed.
December 2, 2014 at 6:19 pm

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General Lighting

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thanks – although cigars are shockingly expensive in Europe these days and I quit tobacco some years ago as many of my older friends went down with all manner of nasty health problems from smoking and exposure to harsh chemicals formerly widely used in the electronics industry.

Sony Consumer Electronics to be fair have cleaned up their act loads recently and make better quality more keenly priced audio equipment (I would never have bought a Sony audio amplifier in the 1980s/90s; not only could I not afford it it would be underpowered compared to other Japanese audio equipment available for the same price).

I suspect a lot of it is the influence of Malaysia and Singapore who adopt European technical and safety standards (both being 230 V countries), have a lot of intelligent folk there who are fussy about good AV equipment as well as intense competition from China so they can no longer get away with snide things like making “standard” connectors about 1-2mm off dimension and then blaming other manufacturers for making duff equipment or worse, inventing an entirely different set of small power connectors.

The Japanese did the exact same with larger strong voltage equipment like generator sets (influenced by America and the “free market/extreme competitive” ethos) until 2011 when they ended up with emergency power systems they couldn’t use in a crisis as the wrong connectors had been supplied.
December 3, 2014 at 3:25 am

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tryptameanie

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Bit more news.

Sony Pictures hack gets uglier; North Korea won?t deny responsibility [Update] | Ars Technica

Wonder if Sony/copyright mentalists/US government are gonna try extradite Kim-Jong Un in the same way they did Kim Dotcom lol.
December 3, 2014 at 3:48 am

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Digital Buddha

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well this looks bad for sony
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