ISPs must take responsibility for Sony movie leaks, MP Says

[XTankSlayerX]

 Fury – Now downloaded more than a million times

 

 

ather than dropping away, this week momentum is building. In addition to the early leaks, available on BitTorrent networks right now is a 25.87GB data dump featuring the personal details of Sony staff including their names, addresses, salaries and social security numbers.

Not only is this file damaging (it reveals rather healthy executive remuneration packages) it’s also adding to the already considerable mystery surrounding the case. Early in the torrent’s life, dozens of Sony-linked Amazon IP addresses were observed on the torrent provoking theories ranging from honey-pots to hijacked servers.

Another mysterious element emerging now involves the torrent’s unique hash. Search for 957DC0A8 04EB8C28 2F33988E B9096974 FC3761C9 using Google or Bing and there are zero results (at least before publication of this article) which is extremely unusual indeed. Whichever way this torrent made its way online, it almost certainly wasn’t via any conventional route.

 

 

Mike Weatherley MP, the recent IP advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron, has published several piracy reports including one earlier in the year examining the advertising revenue on pirate sites. He believes that companies with no direct connection to the hack or subsequent leaks should shoulder some blame.

“Piracy is a huge international problem. The recent cyber-attack on Sony and subsequent release of films to illegal websites is just one high-profile example of how criminals exploit others’ Intellectual Property,” Weatherley writes in an email to TF.

“Unfortunately, the theft of these films – and their subsequent downloads – has been facilitated by web-hosting companies and, ultimately, ISPs who do have to step-up and take some responsibility.”

 

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/isps-must-take-responsibility-for-sony-movie-leaks-mp-says-141203/

 

I personally think that the only people to blame here are Sony. They've gotten hacked time and time gain but they haven't learned yet. Also, all the MP's need to shut up tbh...

[ImBleu]

Blah Blah. No one really cares Sony. 

 

Honestly don't pull a ubisoft and blame everyone. Why not blame Ikea while you're at it since they were using an ikea table at the time. However I do not agree with all the personal details being leaked like that.

[alexyy]

Well I felt like watching it again and cba paying again!

[alexyy]

Well I felt like watching it again and cba paying again!

[cesrai]

So is this movie good going to try to watch it.

[silenthill_69]

Also, all the MP's need to shut up tbh..., hay I thought the people elected them, so your basically saying they shut the fuck up because you don't like what the are saying.....great...awesome...mate you should go and live in North Korea     

[HippY]

 

Also, all the MP's need to shut up tbh...

 

Why? Do not get me wrong, but in a sense they have a point, and is happening in UK. And lets be honest, here it is not piracy, it is not an album or HD porn leaked, it is criminal activity

[Recon97]

Hackers need to fuck off.Deliberately fucking someone is not in my book.They better go through my body if they have to hack someone!

[SkilledRebuilds]

So is this movie good going to try to watch it.

Pretty damn good!

[cesrai]

Pretty damn good!

Hmmm.. so it's on the internet.

[LAwLz]

No MPs... It is not the ISPs responsibility to hunt criminals, just like it's not the responsibility of the construction company to make sure the roads aren't used for bank robbery.

ISPs simply provide and maintain the infrastructure. They should not try to control how and what the customers use it for. This goes against net neutrality.

[Master Disaster]

Also, all the MP's need to shut up tbh..., hay I thought the people elected them, so your basically saying they shut the fuck up because you don't like what the are saying.....great...awesome...mate you should go and live in North Korea

David Cameron was never elected.

There was a hung paliment with Labour having the most votes, Tories second and Lib Dems third. It basically came down to the Lib Dems to create a coalition and Nick Clegg chose to side with David Cameron over Labour meaning Cameron became PM with Clegg as his deputy.

[tobben]

How can they talk about about privacy at the same time as saying isp's need to step up and take responsibility?

to hell with that i say, the last thing we need is to push more power to and responsibility to isp's,

monitoring/censoring/blocking. They should just shut up and forward what they are told.

[qwertywarrior]

VICTIM BLAMING !!!!

[Trik'Stari]

Try it. I will gladly sit back and watch and laugh.

[RH00D]

So is this movie good going to try to watch it.

Yeah, I saw it in the theatre a couple weeks ago. But I wouldn't pirate it, go to the theatres instead, its a better experience.

[jaggysnake57]

David Cameron was never elected.

There was a hung paliment with Labour having the most votes, Tories second and Lib Dems third. It basically came down to the Lib Dems to create a coalition and Nick Clegg chose to side with David Cameron over Labour meaning Cameron became PM with Clegg as his deputy.

Sorry but labour didn't have the most I think the came third

[Master Disaster]

Sorry but labour didn't have the most I think the came third

Your correct on the first but not the second.

Just googled it, Tories won 307 seats (326 was required for majority), Labour took 257 while the Libs took only 57.

[jaggysnake57]

Yeah same here I thought the Lib Dems did better than that

[Misanthrope]

Wendell made a great analogy on this: "While we're at it, most criminals typically use roads to get to crime scenes, get away and even commit crimes, we need to demand road makers to cooperate and stop every single vehicle on the road to inspect them cause well this roads are the problem with crime!"

[kuddlesworth9419]

It's Sony's own fault for being so bad at security. And besides this wasn't a hack done over the internet it was done by fake employees entering a Sony building and uploading malicious programs. 

[Psykomantis00]

 

 

 

I personally think that the only people to blame here are Sony. They've gotten hacked time and time gain but they haven't learned yet. Also, all the MP's need to shut up tbh...

 

 

Exactly. They need major security updates if they want to stay in business. 

[Master Disaster]

It's Sony's own fault for being so bad at security. And besides this wasn't a hack done over the internet it was done by fake employees entering a Sony building and uploading malicious programs.

I'd say that's worse. It means it wasn't a opportunistic attack. It was planned and orchestrated as a targeted attack against Sony.

[kuddlesworth9419]

I'd say that's worse. It means it wasn't a opportunistic attack. It was planned and orchestrated as a targeted attack against Sony.

Well yea but it wasn't the ISP's fault it never went through their servers.

[HippY]

Well yea but it wasn't the ISP's fault it never went through their servers.

they stole 11 TB data. 11 TB. You do not download that overnight, or without anyone noticing it. it is just massive both in file size and data transfer.

And if you want to leave the site with them, it will take 11 SSD/ 3-4 HDD, and it is not the most elegant, but can be sorted. but in this case, no ISP involved