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“The Interview” now available on Google Play and YouTube Movies [W:66]

The movie looks like a real dog. KJU was doing the US a favor.

Im gonna be up north in a few days, and plan to watch it, as of now all I have seen is the KJU death scene (like the auto grenade) and the hype online and in media-its well worth few bucks, some christmas cheer, and some booze. But who knows?
 
“The Interview” now available on Google Play and YouTube Movies

sounds fun, but i think i'll watch my zombie stories instead.
 
I think there is a good chance that the hype about the movie may propel it to become more profitable than whatever Sony lost in the cyber attack. The cyber attackers will end up with a non winner.
 
I pirated it since isn't available in Canada because Sony sucks, and watched it last night.
 
I think there is a good chance that the hype about the movie may propel it to become more profitable than whatever Sony lost in the cyber attack. The cyber attackers will end up with a non winner.

Well they locked access to the U.S. only and it is very popular on torrent sites right now so right out of the get go they are probably losing money because they only released it in the U.S..
 
Hey, some of us have spent most of our lives outside of a classroom. You should try it sometime, it's great for the knees.

Merry Christmas!

Standing outside for punishment for having done what inside the classroom?
 
Im gonna be up north in a few days, and plan to watch it, as of now all I have seen is the KJU death scene (like the auto grenade) and the hype online and in media-its well worth few bucks, some christmas cheer, and some booze. But who knows?

yeah, my son rented it yesterday, we may watch it today....:shrug: Merry Christmas everyone.
 
Well they locked access to the U.S. only and it is very popular on torrent sites right now so right out of the get go they are probably losing money because they only released it in the U.S..

They are probably trying to protect the sites that stream it from foreign hacking. It was foreign hacking, after all, that started the whole issue.
 
Not the point.

Sony has the rights to this movie world wide.. Google Play and Youtube.. hell their own freaking website is world wide. So why on earth not release it world wide when they have the ability?

They are basically forcing overseas people to use VPNs or pirate the movie.. and instead they could have earned a pretty sum if they had just bothered to release it world wide.. utter fail.

No worries I will get this movie and I was going to actually for the first time in over a decade buy a movie just to stick it to North Korea.. but **** that.

People in europe cant use KAT?
 
You are right. However, it's the best they have right now. I think the first step is to figure out how NK's hackers got into their servers. After that, they should heavily invest in some better security. Once that is done, it's up for them to come up with a policy for any similar events in the future. This caught everyone by surprise and I think what Sony is doing is fine for now (because of how unprepared everyone was) but simply unacceptable in the future.

What I find more troubling is Obama commenting on this, and everyone and their mama telling Sony that they should release the movie. Sony hesitated because it simply hadn't encountered anything like this before. Any decision it took after that is entirely its own to make. It wouldn't be the first company that decides to pull out of a deal/agreement because of security concerns and the possible damage to its image.

For jingoists who don't have anything to lose, Sony releasing it allows them to put up their 'Murica game. However what if it were to be released and god forbid an actual attack occurred? Sony would spend years getting over the terrible publicity such incidents make. FFS, the first thing DKR's production company did was cancel the openings in about 4-5 different countries the minute the news of the Aurora shooting came out.

That is exactly why we cannot rely on the automatic hero thing. If one of them is destroyed in public, the next will be hard to find and coercion will be free to roam wild.

What would be interesting is how Obama's pressure or let us call it moral suasion would be interpreted. Would the government stand by Sony or not?

Also, I would say that we all expected somethng along these lines. We have seen the hacker's leaks of telephone calls and threats by dictators before. We have talker about al sorts of attacks via the internet on companies and governments for years. If we were taken by surprise, were unprepared, some people should lose their jobs and some should go to jail.
 
It's up on all the torrent sites for free...lol
 
sounds fun, but i think i'll watch my zombie stories instead.

Now I have an image in my head of daily zombie soap operas being watched by elderly women.
 
They are probably trying to protect the sites that stream it from foreign hacking. It was foreign hacking, after all, that started the whole issue.

Err the Sony servers where the hacking was done against were located in the US. So that has absolutely nothing what so ever to do with it.
 
I wish all movies were released online simultaneously with the theatrical release. I HATE going to movie theaters, and would gladly pay the same price to watch new releases at home.

It was actually cheaper to watch it at home. I paid $7, but at least five people watched it.

Honestly though, the movie wasn't worth that much.
 
It was actually cheaper to watch it at home. I paid $7, but at least five people watched it.

Honestly though, the movie wasn't worth that much.

Yeah that movie isn't something I wanted to see, I'm not a Seth Rogen fan.

Seriously though, I hope this can be the start of releasing new films for PPV. I hate theaters because the general public is obnoxious and inconsiderate, and my TV at home has a better picture than movie theater screens. I'd gladly pay the same price to watch it at home, hell, figure in the loss from concessions, I'd pay double to watch it at home.
 
Now I have an image in my head of daily zombie soap operas being watched by elderly women.

i have to watch my stories.
 
Official Google Blog: “The Interview” now available on Google Play and YouTube Movies



I don't know if I'll get gigged for this. I don't think I should considering the fact that it's breaking news and it's being posted directly from the source. The Interview is now available for download. Sony has given a massive middle finger to NK and decided to release the movie online. Admittedly for around the same prices a movie theater would charge. Let's see what the reaction is when NK gets their Wifi password back and realize the movie is now out there for the world to see.

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You know....I'm actually probably not going to watch it, because I wasn't going to watch it in the first place. It's just not my kind of movie.
 
The Walking Dead ftw

the GF bought me the Walking Dead game for Christmas. the rules are the most complicated i've ever seen in any board game. fun, though. i got to be Rick. i drank moonshine, and kept yelling "Carl!" really loud in my Rick voice.
 
I'm going to watch the movie but not because of the Sony hack hype. I'm just watching it because I generally like the kind of stuff Seth Rogan is in. I'm sure The Interview will be a fine movie and I'll have some laughs, but the hype is building it up to be some scathing counter-cultural phenomenon that of course it can never live up to.
 
Yeah that movie isn't something I wanted to see, I'm not a Seth Rogen fan.

Seriously though, I hope this can be the start of releasing new films for PPV. I hate theaters because the general public is obnoxious and inconsiderate, and my TV at home has a better picture than movie theater screens. I'd gladly pay the same price to watch it at home, hell, figure in the loss from concessions, I'd pay double to watch it at home.

It wont. New films released on PPV is simply not going to happen because the industry is living in the dark ages and refuses to adapt.

They actually tried it with Veronica Mars movie release this year. It was released for sale online in iTunes and Google Play in the US and Canada at first and the rest of the world on their own service. The people who had supported the movie in Kickstarter all got a free copy and this was done by a code they could use on the movie company´s own service. This service was utterly horrible and broken. It required multiple sign-ups to different independent services and if you actually managed to sign up (the websites were broken) then they did not talk to each other so you could not get access to the movie. In the end the backers got access via iTunes or Google Play and because of this sales were open up to the whole world, but it showed a massive flaw in the way the movie industry thinks. They want all the profits, but dont want to set up a distribution system and certainly dont want to support systems like iTunes and Google Play since they are seen as the enemy of DVD sales. That is why when you buy a DVD you often get a free digital copy on the movie studios digital platform and not on iTunes and Google Play.

No what the movie industry has to learn.. and the hard way it seems, is that people would rather watch movies like The Interview in the comfort of their own home, and go to the cinema for only the movies that deserve a big screen.
 
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