We have an AMA tonight which will probably be the sticky priority. I also don't think the NK thing is really a big deal at all personally, it's only a big deal because the MSM is making it one which should tell us something about the validity to the story.

I highly doubt NK is involved in any way, the only question I have is what's the purpose of the entire thing. Is it a pretext for invasion? Planting seeds in our mind for a larger scale terrorist or cyber attack? Or just a bullshit distraction to keep people from reading about the new Intelligence Act that was just signed into law and the details of the torture reports?

The Benghazi attack was initially blamed on the "anti-Islam" video, what will NK do it this anti-NK video is released? False flag that's what.

I agree with you. But look at the sub, it seems like every other post is about NK.

Yep, /r/conspiracy isn't immune to the MSM narrative by any means. Look at some of the users posting these stories, many are not regulars of this sub who I've seen.

Someone needs to find out if Sony has insurance on these kinds of leaks. This could be a huge insurance fraud scam in the making. What if some legal/business/financial group within Sony turned over on Pascal and Rudin, throwing them under the bus to insure they made their money back on a shitty movie (or series of shitty movies) that was sure to flop.

It's a publicity stunt by Sony and everyone talking about it, including myself, is an idiot for giving them so much free press.

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publicity stunt

Or insurance fraud (depending on whether or not they have insurance on leaks which a lot of studios do).

Definitely could be a publicity stunt that just went too far and its too late to come clean, and/or the US government saw the potential in the stunt and just decided to make it seem real.

I just said this same thing in another thread but I guarantee this movie will be released in the coming months and it will make a shit ton of money as people flock to see the "controversial" movie. Sony knows what it's doing and it's a brilliant PR campaign.

You think Sony released all that data and private information as a marketing stunt? Lol. Don't fool yourself. Maybe if there was no hack and just the theater threat, but no way they did all this as marketing.

You can definitely say how this back is giving them free publicity, or even that they're taking advantage of it for publicity, but no way they did all this just for publicity. You genuinely believe that?

Yes, I genuinely believe companies sometimes make shit up in order to advertise their products. Some people in Sony's marketing department could have made this whole thing up, or purposely leaked shit, in order to create this controversy. Obviously I can't prove that, but to think that couldn't or doesn't happen is being naive.

And how has any of that data harmed them? But really, I am genuinely asking. I don't know so much about what was actually hacked.

From the little I read about it, the "data" that was pulled was about as telling as your average tabloid. George Clooney said this in an email. This producer thinks Angelina Jolie is a brat. Etc...

Well it sounds like the problem is that you are uninformed then.

I'm not gonna hold your hand through all of the data and the ramifications but one easy example I'm sure you can comprehend is this: typically companies avoid marketing plans which result in you getting sued in a class action. Typically you don't release all of your employees personal and sensitive data such as social security numbers.

Unless it was someone within the company who only cares about their paycheck, or a bonus they might get if the movie makes a ton of money (I realize as of now they're not releasing the movie but I guarantee it will be released, and all the idiots who are buying into this shit will flock to throw their money at the movie), could have created this "controversy".

No, that's ridiculous.

They also might just not release it whatsoever and try to get insurance money. It might not be released, but even if it is that doesn't prove anything. And capitalizing on the attack is a lot different from doing the attack.

To every topic where there is so much coverage, a collection of knowledge should be gathered in a collective effort to keep things organised and clear. That's the only way online discussion like this sub will have an impact and will serve the elimination of the problems they are addressing.

Yes, exactly. It would help us to pool our resources and to collectively eliminate the clutter.

I am here for just a couple days, never used reddit before. Naively, i thought that would be the mod's job. But except for Corbett i don't see anyone doing it open source. Why hasn't this been figured out yet. The community seems quite smart to me at times.