No one's laughing after the dark comedy, "The Interview," raised North Korea's ire and brought about a disastrous $100 million hack attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Now, it looks like the whole mess is headed into U.S. courts.
An attorney for Sony has slammed website Twitter with a nasty legal letter, threatening to sue if Twitter does not block users who have been posting embarrassing emails between Sony executives,
NBC News reports.
In a letter to Twitter's legal counsel, Vijaya Gadde, SPE attorney David Boies wrote that SPE wants Twitter to drop and erase the account of Val Broeksmit, who uses the Internet handle @bikinrobotarmy to post copies of SPE material leaked during the SPE hacking attack, which the FBI has blamed on North Korea, the
New York Post reports.
"As Twitter is aware, someone using the Twitter account name: @bikinirobotarmy [the "Account Holder"] is in possession of, and is using this Twitter account to publish, SPE’s stolen documents and information (the "Stolen Information"), pursuant to the perpetrators’ scheme,"
Boies wrote.
The letter ominously warns, "If Twitter does not comply with this request, and the stolen information continues to be disseminated by Twitter in any manner, SPE will have no choice but to hold Twitter responsible for any damage or loss arising from such use or dissemination by Twitter, including any damages or loss to SPE or others, and including, but not limited to, any loss of value of intellectual property and trade secrets resulting from Twitter’s actions."
Broeksmit's Twitter site, complete with hacked SPE material, was still online at Tuesday at https://twitter.com/BikiniRobotArmy/media. The Twitter posts, for example, reveal that SPE paid comic actor Kevin Hart $2 million to post tweets about SPE's film "The Equalizer," starring Denzel Washington.
The hacked material between unnamed SPE executives states, "We are finishing up some great African-American targeted TV
— will have a :15 for him [Hart] to tweet. Maybe with a 'can’t wait to see this' message.
"Yep. He owes us. I also got him to tweet on NGD ("No Good Deed" with Idris Elba). We paid him an extra 2M to tweet on 2 pictures. Let me (see) what I can do. What would you have him tweet? A :15 spot saying check it out and I can’t wait to see this? Or 'how excited am I to see Equalizer this weekend?'"
Broeksmit also was threatened with legal action if he does not remove the posts,
Motherboard reports, but told the site, "I’m not with a newspaper and I think I can get away with it. It’s important — the reason is it’s so new and different from anything we’ve seen before. This is a billion dollar company being made bare to the public. It’s crazy I have these emails, and it’s fascinating to learn how these companies work."
SPE also has contacted other news media, threatening in language similar to that used in the letter to Twitter to sue if the media publishes information obtained through the North Korean hack attack,
Gawker reports.
The motion picture is a comedy about two journalists asked to assassinate Kim Jong Un, the dictator of North Korea, but North Korea apparently took it seriously enough to hack into Sony's computers in revenge and an attempt to force SPE to kill the movie.
Sony pulled the picture from release after receiving threats against theaters which show it.
President Barack Obama has said of the attack, "I don't think it was an act of war," terming it an "act of cyber-vandalism that was very costly, very expensive," NBC News reported.
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