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It's Sony Pictures Entertainment that got hacked, not Sony. They're completely separate companies, yet the media fails to recognize that. Very annoying and confusing, it's almost deliberately.

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> It's Sony Pictures Entertainment that got hacked, not Sony. They're completely separate companies, yet the media fails to recognize that.

Sony is a very large conglomerate: while it would be incorrect to say that, say, Sony Computer Entertainment (the subsidiary that runs Sony's video games operations) got hacked, Sony Pictures Entertainment is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Entertainment, Inc., which is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.[1] It's as much "Sony" as any of its other subsidiaries.

[1]: http://www.sonypictures.com/corp/aboutsonypictures.html

BS. We heard the same lame excuse when the Sony-BMG rootkit debacle took place. You want to use the name "Sony" for positive publicity and goodwill? Then you take the negative publicity along with it.

Gosh, someone should tell someone at Sony. They themselves draw no distinction.

Sony -- Script to Screen: http://youtu.be/4P4Wl1Ogg_g

A bunch of Amazon EC2 machines that were also running web sites seemingly part of the Sony Playstation network were seeding the torrent for a day or so after the leak:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/03/strange_things_afoot...

"Completely separate companies" is overstating it a bit. Operationally separate business units of the same company might be closer to the mark. Their "About" page doesn't even try to describe them independently, saying only that "Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation." And the footer links directly to sony.com.

That's just corporate sophistry.

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