Sony Attorney threatens news outlets over Sony hack stories. According to several news outlets, Sony Pictures is getting aggressive and calls the leaked data as “stolen information”.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
In the letter, first reported by The New York Times, Boies referred to leaked Sony documents as “stolen information” and demanded that the files be ignored, or destroyed if they had already been downloaded.
“We are writing to ensure that you are aware that SPE does not consent to your possession, review copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading or making any use of the stolen information, and to request your cooperation in destroying the stolen information,” the letter reads.
The letter adds that the leak is the result of “an on-going campaign explicitly seeking to prevent SPE from distributing a motion picture.” The hackers are “using the dissemination of both private and company information for the stated purpose of materially harming SPE unless SPE submits and withdraws the motion picture from distribution.
The Hollywood Reporter, Gawker, Bloomberg, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have been reporting details surrounding the Sony Hack and are now all of the news media outlets are being told to stop reporting on the Sony Hack.
According to Deadline, Boies is one of the nation’s most prominent litigators.
Among much else, he argued such big Supreme Court cases as the Bush v. Gore suit (he represented Al Gore) over the 2000 presidential election results in Florida and the successful challenge to California’s Prop. 8 banning gay marriage. Boies also represents Gore in his ongoing legal disputes with Al Jazeera.
Hollywood producer, screenwriter and director, Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom) has spoke out against the news media outlets reporting on the Sony Hack. Sorkin calls for those media outlets to consider what they are doing.
“the media got serious. Not because no one gets more use out of the First Amendment than they do, and here was a group threatening to kill people for exercising it. Not because hackers had released Social Security numbers, home addresses, computer passwords, bank account details, performance reviews, phone numbers, the aliases used when high-profile actors check into hotels (a safety measure to keep stalkers away), and even the medical records of employees and their children. But because a stolen email revealed that Jennifer Lawrence was being undervalued.”
Yesterday, a hacker claiming to be a member of the group Guardians of Peace, which has taken credit for the November 24th breach on Sony’s systems, sent journalist an eighth batch of internal Sony documents and also announced that there will be a major leak in the next few days.
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