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THE EFFECTS OF major cyberattack on the Sony Pictures Entertainment studio are still being felt, with the leaking of five films to file-sharing websites.
Four of these have not yet been released.
Variety reports that Annie, Mr Turner, Still Alice, and To Write Love on Her Arms are now available on file-sharing websites.
Fury, released last month, was also leaked and has close to a million downloads already.
Sony are liaising with police following the hack.
The company is looking into whether North Korea may have been behind the attack.
Re/code noted last week that the attack came as the studio neared release of a comedy about a CIA plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-Un.
The Interview, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as two journalists recruited by the CIA to bump off Kim, has infuriated the North Koreans, with state media warning of “merciless retaliation”.
Hackers operating in China
Citing sources familiar with the matter, Re/code on Friday said Sony and outside consultants were exploring the theory hackers operating in China carried out the attack last Monday on behalf of North Korea.
A North Korean link has not been confirmed, however, according to the sources.
An image posted on the Reddit social network from an individual claiming to be a former Sony employee showed a page with the words “Hacked by #GOP”, possibly standing for Guardians of Peace.
The posted image said unspecified demands must be met by Sony or important files would be released.
Additional reporting - © AFP 2014
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Cool. I know what I’ll be watching tonight.
All thanks to the communist principles of Kim Jung Un …… Maybe socialism aint so bad !
The journal is now an advertising platform of torrents.eu
Those pesky North Koreans trying to destroy the world one torrent at a time! Oh the humanity
All available on showbox..Thats me sorted for the week..
Check out movie 25
This is a job for Team America and Gary Johnston’s fantastic acting skills.
Unless there is a North Korean working at Sony Studios. These are more than likely advanced screener videos for critics and award purposes that have been leaked out by staff themselves and found their way into the wrong hands.
Screener season is January. Love January.
This has publicity stunt written all over it. “Let’s release 4 rubbish films and blame it on a hack from the country our possibly good film is about. That will stir up free advertising”. And it has, reading this and other articles.
Fury is a class film anto oscar material
Apart from Annie they’re all films with legit Oscar intentions. Mr Turner played in the Cannes film festival and Timothy Spall will likely get a nominations for Best Actor.
Someone in Sony will be in deep Sh#t! 5 movies lost to torrents! Cyber Monday eat your heart out!
Good movies, but I haven’t watched em yet sure that’s illegal ;)
It’s actually not (unless they’ve changed the law in the last two years), I checked with INFACT who are in charge of copyright infringement in late 2011.
It’s illegal to download audio (music), however it’s not illegal to download video as long as you don’t distribute it (seed torrents, sharing, burning disks etc).
Personal use is totally legitimate as long as no distribution occurs.
Maybe someone in the journal could verify this with INFACT.
I seed man , actually I don’t that’s against the law ;)
The day is coming where all entertainment will have to be released globally at the same time, people don’t wanna wait for months to see a movie which is spoilt by people on social media giving away the fecking start middle and ending !!!
The ship hits an iceberg and sinks… Oh and jack drowns.
Shame it wasn’t Interstellar. I can’t wait to see that flick
On your own there
Go see it so? It’s on in every cinema in the country.
Actually don’t bother it’s crap
Yeah it’s not great. Fury is one of the best films I’ve seen in a while and worth the price of admission. Worth seeing in the cinema for the better sound.
I live in a foreign country with lovely, but foreign, words
Are they taking requests?
These include unreleased titles “Annie,” “Mr. Turner,” “Still Alice,” and “To Write Love On Her Arms,” as well as World War II drama “Fury.”
Praise the Lord for showbox
Jaysis Fury was woeful,couldn’t be more ridiculous,Saving Private Ryan meets Rambo,Still Alice is very good though,so one of the cast tells me….
It’s a good film let down by its over the top unrealistic ending
The ending did wreck it a bit
It started well and I was enjoying it but descended into farce,for me if the last half hour of a film is a joke you’ve just wasted your time
I recommend Fury and I’m looking forward to American Sniper.
Fury is a great show. Thanks.
Too bad it wasn’t Foxcatcher or Whiplash leaked instead. Can’t wait to see both
Want to see American sniper next, anybody know if I can locate it online yet?
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