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YouTube, web channels show Sony's 'The Interview' a day before theatres

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 25 December, 2014, 8:27am
UPDATED : Thursday, 25 December, 2014, 8:27am

Reuters

Tickets for the film "The Interview" is seen held up by theater manager Donald Melancon for the media at Crest Theater in Los Angeles, California December 24, 2014.Photo: Reuters

Sony Pictures made "The Interview" available online on Wednesday, a day before its theatrical release, after reversing a decision made a week ago to cancel the movie's release following a massive cyberattack.

The film was available for rental on Google Inc's YouTube site as of early Wednesday afternoon. Microsoft Corp and Sony itself are also showing the comedy, a day before its scheduled premiere at some 320 independent theatres.

"We chose the path of digital distribution first so as to reach as many people as possible on opening day, and we continue to seek other partners and platforms to further expand the release," Sony Entertainment Chief Executive Michael Lynton said in a statement.

He added that Sony had first reached out to Google, Microsoft "and other partners" on Dec. 17, the day the studio said it was cancelling the movie's Christmas Day release.

The movie, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco and is about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, triggered the most destructive cyberattack ever to target a US company, resulting in the release of hundreds of embarrassing emails and confidential data.

US President Barack Obama last week blamed the cyberattacks on North Korea and added to a chorus of criticism by politicians and Hollywood actors, screenwriters and directors accusing Sony of caving to the hackers' demands by censoring itself.

In addition to YouTube Movies, Google Play, Microsoft's Xbox Video, the comedy will be available on a dedicated website, www.seetheinterview.com, to rent for US$5.99 or buy for $14.99. No cable or satellite TV operator has yet agreed to make "The Interview" available through video on demand (VOD).

The showing is a chance for Google and Microsoft, which have been bit players in a VOD market dominated by Apple Inc , Amazon.com Inc and cable and satellite operators, to raise their profile.

It was unclear the extent to which the online release would dampen moviegoers' appetite to see the comedy in the independent theaters that announced on Tuesday they planned to show it.

Many Christmas Day screenings were sold out, including one that begins right after midnight at the 184-seat Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles.

"I need to say that a comedy is best viewed in a theater full of people, so if you can, I'd watch it like that," Rogen tweeted. "Or call some friends over."

Google said it had weighed the security implications of screening the movie - described by reviewers as "profane" and "raunchy" - after Sony contacted the company about making it available online.

"But after discussing all the issues, Sony and Google agreed that we could not sit on the sidelines and allow a handful of people to determine the limits of free speech in another country (however silly the content might be)," Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, wrote in a blog post.

Google has an "enormous" infrastructure that is well tested in fighting off denial of service and other attacks, said Barrett Lyon, principal strategist with F5 Networks and an expert in Internet network security. "I wouldn't imagine seeing 'lights-out' at YouTube," he said, adding that Microsoft could be more vulnerable

Sony pulled the movie after major theatre chains refused to show it. That followed threats of September 11, 2001 style attacks from Guardians of Peace, the group that claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks against Sony.

The White House on Wednesday praised the decision to release the film.

"As the president made clear on Friday, we do not live in a country where a foreign dictator can start imposing censorship here in the United States," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement. "With today's announcements, people can now make their own choices about the film, and that's how it should be."

A national security official said on Tuesday that US authorities did not take the hackers' threats against theatergoers seriously.

CNN, which first reported that Sony was in talks with Google's YouTube on releasing the movie, said the studio also had held talks with Apple about making the comedy available on its iTunes store but that the negotiations broke down.

Obama vowed in a news conference on Friday to respond to the cyberattack "in a place and timing and manner that we choose."

Japan, meanwhile, has begun working to ensure basic infrastructure is safe and to formulate its diplomatic response, officials said, fearing it could be a soft target for possible North Korean cyberattacks in the escalating row over the Sony Pictures hack.

And South Korea is seeking the cooperation of Chinese authorities in a probe into a cyberattack on its nuclear power plant operator after tracing multiple Internet addresses involved to a northeastern Chinese city near North Korea, a prosecution official said.

 

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Some N. Korean websites remain down

Published: 2014-12-24 17:46
Updated: 2014-12-24 17:46

Some major North Korean websites remained blocked Wednesday for the second straight day amid growing speculation over cyber warfare between Washington and Pyongyang.

After going down on Tuesday evening, the website of the North's main propaganda organ, Uriminzokkiri, had remained inaccessible before going back online Wednesday afternoon, although no updated contents were posted.

Access to other well-known North Korean propaganda websites, including Ryugyong and Ryomyong, remained blocked as of Wednesday evening.

Yonhap News Agency found the Internet servers of the affected websites were all located in Chinese cities, including Shenyang and Dandong.

The location of the servers indicated the problem may be taking place in the network linking China and North Korea, some experts noted.

 

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North Korea expands its air force

Published: 2014-12-25 16:11
Updated: 2014-12-25 16:11

North Korea has increased the number of its air force troops by 10,000, while reducing that of army soldiers by the same amount, a South Korean government data showed Thursday.

The total number of the North's armed forces stood at 1.19 million as of the end of 2013, according to the defense ministry's update of its assessment of the communist nation's military power.

"There seems to be no change in the general size of the North Korean military. But it transferred some aviation units in the army to the air force," a ministry official said.

The North's military also increased the number of its aircraft by 230 to 1,580 and the navy has 810 ships, mostly small and aged ones, the ministry said in the report.

The North has more than 1,000 ballistic missiles, it added.

(Yonhap)

 

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Banned from North Korea – Unique Photos by Eric Lafforgue

By: Tim Kok

Eric Lafforgue’s photography of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (or simply North Korea) gives us a rare glimpse of life inside this isolated country. Eric says that the pictures are “just what I’ve seen during my trip and what the government wants or allows to show to tourists.” Despite these limitations, his photos capture some of the unique flavor of North Korea, while at the same time portraying the basic humanity you can find in people everywhere. From 2008 to 2012, Eric made six trips to North Korea. In 2013, he was banned from the country.

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Viewers in China, S Korea pan the Interview spoof about a Kim Jong-un assassination

Illegal copies of spoof about the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seen by hundreds of thousands in region

PUBLISHED : Saturday, 27 December, 2014, 4:56am
UPDATED : Saturday, 27 December, 2014, 4:56am

Reuters in Seoul and Shanghai

The film was available to US online viewers through Google's Google Play and YouTube Movies, Microsoft Corp's Xbox Live as well as on a Sony website. Photo: AFP

Hundreds of thousands of people viewed illegal copies of The Interview in China and South Korea yesterday, just hours after the controversial movie on the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was released in the United States.

Most viewers said they watched the low-brow spoof because of the devastating cyberattack on the Hollywood studio that produced it, Sony Pictures, but they were not impressed.

Even in South Korea, technically at war with the North, viewers panned the movie.

"A lot of it is unrealistic and the people who play North Koreans are so bad at speaking Korean," said a viewer on Naver, an online portal. "In the scene where Kim Jong-un gets mad ... I couldn't quite understand what he was saying."

A blogger on Naver said: "There is no drama and not much fun. It's all about forced comedy that turns you off. Couldn't they have done a better job making this movie?"

The United States has blamed the cyberattack on North Korea, but Pyongyang has said it is not responsible.

In China, a copy of the movie with Chinese subtitles has been viewed at least 300,000 times on just one video sharing platform.

"It doesn't matter whether the film is any good, it's become something everyone has to see," said one user on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.

The film, which had initially been cancelled after the cyberattack on Sony, opened in more than 300 movie theatres across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell-out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

The film was available to US online viewers through Google's Google Play and YouTube Movies, Microsoft Corp's Xbox Live as well as on a Sony website, www.seetheinterview.com It can be seen in Canada on the Sony site and Google Canada's website.

There are no plans yet for an official theatrical release in Asia.

Sony's international executives have previously said the movie was "desperately unfunny" and would have flopped overseas, according to emails leaked by the hackers.

China is North Korea's only major ally, but Kim Jong-un is not a popular figure in the country, being widely lampooned on social media as "Fatty Kim".

Many viewers said the film was not very good, but the idea it posed any risk to North Korea was absurd. Pyongyang has denounced the film as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war".

"An act of terror? I think only Fatty Kim should be feeling any danger," another viewer posted on Weibo.

Meanwhile, amid hacking accusations levelled at North Korea, some analysts are questioning how an isolated, impoverished country with limited internet access could wage cyber sabotage - and many experts suspect China's involvement.

Many observers have speculated China is a necessary partner in facilitating any attack by the North.

"North Korea's cybercapacity relies on Chinese support in terms of both hardware and software," Willy Lam, a politics expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said.

"Through this support the Chinese can maintain a certain level of control, he added.

"They want to maintain that position, so they won't pull their support because of the hacking scandal."

Experts say telecommunications giant China Unicom provides and maintains all internet links with the North, and some estimate that thousands of North Korean hackers operate on Chinese soil.

Pyongyang insisted that it had nothing to do with the theft and leaking of Sony company secrets or threats against moviegoers, and was silent on why its internet went down for hours this week.

Attention has also turned to China after many doubted North Korea has the ability to mount such an attack from inside its territory, given its limited cyberinfrastructure.

Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse

 

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North Korea calls US President Barack Obama a ‘monkey’ as Sony hacking row continues

Pyongyang describes controversial Sony move The Interview as illegal, dishonest and reactionary as it says US president is 'like a monkey in a tropical forest'

PUBLISHED : Saturday, 27 December, 2014, 1:16pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 27 December, 2014, 1:19pm

Associated Press in Seoul

North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un visits a greenhouse for growing vegetables accompanied by military top brass. Photo: EPA

North Korea called President Barack Obama “a monkey” and on Saturday blamed the US for shutting down its internet amid the hacking row over the film comedy The Interview.

North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an assassination of its leader Kim Jong-un. After Sony Pictures initially called off the release in a decision criticised by Obama, the movie opened this week.

On Saturday, the North’s powerful National Defence Commission, the country’s top governing body led by Kim, said that Obama was behind the release of The Interview. It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.

“Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,” an unidentified spokesman at the commission’s Policy Department said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

US President Barack Obama has been described as a 'monkey' by North Korea’s powerful National Defence Commission. Photo: Xinhua

He also accused Washington for intermittent outages of North Korea websites this week, after the US had promised to respond to the Sony hack.

There was no immediate reaction from the White House on Saturday.

According to the North Korea commission’s spokesman, “the US, a big country, started disturbing the internet operation of major media of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing a tag.”

The commission said the movie was the results of a hostile US policy toward North Korea, and threatened unspecified consequences.

North Korea and the US remain technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The rivals also are locked in an international standoff over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes and its alleged human rights abuses. The US currently stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea as deterrence against North Korean aggression.

Sony Pictures' movie "The Interview" opens on Christmas Day in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: AFP

 

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Demand For ‘The Interview’ Is Shooting Up In North Korea And Its Government Is Freaking Out

Eugene Kim Dec. 27, 2014, 4:12 AM

REUTERS/Jason Lee North Koreans praising its leader Kim Jong Un

More and more North Koreans are becoming aware of the North Korea-mocking movie “The Interview,” and the government is doing everything to block it from getting smuggled in to the country.

According to Free North Korea Radio, an online radio network made by North Korean defectors, demand for “The Interview” has been shooting up among North Koreans. It says people are willing to pay almost $50 a copy of the movie, which is 10X higher than what a regular South Korean TV show’s DVD would cost in the black market.

In response, North Korea’s State Security Department and The Ministry of People’s Security held an emergency meeting recently, and told its officers to make sure the movie doesn’t make it into the country under any circumstances.

The report says the North Korean government has beefed up its border security inspection level, and even told black market dealers to not bring in any kind of US movie for the time being.

It’s not too hard to see why North Korea is so freaked out by the possibility of “The Interview” reaching its people. The movie makes a blatant mockery of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – who dies at the end – and breaks the government’s narrative of portraying him as an almighty God.

In fact, Rich Klein of the advisory firm McLarty Associates says that “The Interview” could become “a very real challenge to the ruling regime’s legitimacy.” He writes in the Washington Post:

“Think of the movie as Chernobyl for the digital age. Just as the nuclear catastrophe in the Soviet Union and the dangerously clumsy efforts to hide it exposed the Kremlin’s leadership as inept and morally bankrupt, overseeing a superpower rusting from the inside, so does The Interview risk eroding the myths, fabrications and bluster that keep the Kim dynasty in power.”

But even with all the increased inspection, some lucky North Koreans may be able to see “The Interview” soon. North Korean defector and activist Park Sang Hak plans to send copies of “The Interview” to Pyongyang through 33-foot hydrogen balloons as soon as the film becomes available on DVD.

 

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Two kids in Pyongyang

All tourists must go on a guided tour when they visit North Korea. According to Lafforgue,
the guides show more to tourists than stated journalists, so he always declared himself a tourist.

Each time Lafforgue visited, the guides tried to take him on the same “classic” tour to the expected sites.


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To avoid this, he started coming when there were special events like the Arirang Mass Games.

The Mass Games are held every year to tell the story of North Korea. They include complicated synchronized performances and it is considered a great honor to take part.

Lafforgue says that North Korea has changed dramatically from when he first visited in 2008. The only thing that hasn’t changed is the regime, he says.


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