Yes, they had a choice.

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Dec 19, 2014
1:12:44pm

pittsburghcoug

Cower to terrorists or man up. Every institution in America could face liability in terrorist threats.

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Sony and the theaters had no choice.

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:09pm

Yes, they had a choice.

pittsburghcoug

12/19/14 1:12pm

You're the president of Sony and you're going to expose your company to that

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:14pm

Based on the emails that have been leaked, I'd be fired anyway

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 1:16pm

Or should be. If Rudin and Pascal survive this, it will be shocking.

lawboy

12/19/14 1:17pm

Maybe, but there's no way the board is going to let you make that decision.

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:18pm

It's not about being macho. It's about making money and setting a precedent

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 1:23pm

and one terrorist attack would negate all of the profits and could very well

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:25pm

Why not leave it up to the theaters then?

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 1:34pm

Not to mention, by caving you invite similar attacks in the future

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 1:37pm

Remember that 5 theater chains canceled BEFORE Sony pulled the film.

Blue Print

12/19/14 2:00pm

Yeah, that's fine. Doesn't justify Sony pulling it altogether IMO

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 2:08pm

Those were the MAJOR chains and you're assuming the minor ones wouldn't follow.

Blue Print

12/19/14 2:11pm

There's an opportunity there for small chains/theaters then

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 2:15pm

You don't know that.

Blue Print

12/19/14 2:23pm

I know it just as much as you know anything you've been stating

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 2:35pm

read this and then tell me who is actually paying attention.

Blue Print

12/19/14 3:32pm

Haha. Now you want to tell me what I knew and didn't know? Ok, guy.

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 3:39pm

But that is a good article that came out 40 minutes ago. Glad to see they're

BYUCoug11

12/19/14 3:42pm

Question for you.

pittsburghcoug

12/19/14 1:19pm

It would be a real issue if there was a specific threat.

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:22pm

True about liability in terrorist threats but just about every institution

UneducatedFan

12/19/14 1:17pm

Terrorism is excluded under most insurance liability policies too

BIG XII Coug

12/19/14 1:18pm

Most policies would autoreject it based on "prior knowledge" clauses.

UneducatedFan

12/19/14 1:21pm

Glad to know that Kim Jung is now able to censor US media as well as his own.

SanFran

12/19/14 1:19pm

Change liability law then.

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:20pm

Should we cancel every event every time there is a terrorist threat?

SanFran

12/19/14 1:27pm

If there's no way to limit liability, you are free to do whatever you want with

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:30pm

Sensor?

Dread Pirate Westley

12/19/14 1:22pm

Thanks

SanFran

12/19/14 1:25pm

closer...

Dread Pirate Westley

12/19/14 1:27pm

If that were the case, why not release as stream-able media?

El Fuego

12/19/14 1:28pm

That's the best answer and the one I think they will eventually get to.

Blue Print

12/19/14 1:31pm

Surely many large public events receive terrorist threats, and they are able to

SanFran

12/19/14 1:49pm

If Sony wanted to go forward with the event they could have. There are lots of

SanFran

12/19/14 1:51pm

Name one.

Blue Print

12/19/14 2:21pm

When there was significant concern for terrorist activity during SLC Olympics,

SanFran

12/19/14 2:29pm

and who is paying for all this at 5,000+ locations?

Blue Print

12/19/14 3:35pm

Every flight. Every day.

BluePete

12/19/14 1:59pm

Yes, and the real liability in that goes to the DHS not the airlines.

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