I will not be buying or renting this movie, because while I feel badly for rank-and-file SPE employees affected by the hack, SPE is still a company that:
1). Has been hacked so often their network security should, at this point, be hardened like a NSA datastore. And they still blame everyone but themselves.
2). Actively used their corporate influence to push for legislation that would turn the Internet into a paid content delivery platform rather than a free market of ideas.
3). Is entirely capable of a false flag op to get a movie that, by all accounts, is not very good some free publicity. Or capable of being complicit in a government false flag op to discredit North Korea.
I have nothing but disdain for the Kim regime. I am no DPRK apologist. But that doesn’t mean I have to choose sides and become an SPE apologist.
Sony, treat me like a valued customer, ensuring the safety of my personal information and working for a free and open Internet and I might spend money. Until then, I’ll watch something else.
https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_Interview?id=Ed2kSuKqfz0
I certainly wouldn’t spend money on anything that resulted in Sony getting more than my name, but:
* I was planning on seeing the movie anyway based off of the trailers. Shit looks funny, yo.
* I’m hoping to support the idea that launching streaming movies on day one is a profitable and good idea.
I’m unlikely to completely avoid Sony, so there’s no point in attempting a boycott for me. However, I hope people have enough sense to not give them data that they don’t want spread over the entire Internet.
Bittorrent. ‘Nuf said.
Ah, see that’s what I’m not hoping to promote. It’s clearly going to be easier to make a master off of the stream rather than with some shaky-cam in a movie, but I hope enough people see it legitly so that the piracy rate doesn’t matter.