Again, you haven't followed this very closely. I'm not bent out of shape, but some of the actors/directors/producers etc. that were called "untalented", wastes of money, etc. are - if you think that is "gossip and water cooler chatter" you know nothing about Hollywood and deal making. To think it will have no impact is foolish.
And if you don't understand the difference between a private citizen's privately owned cell phone vs. corporate email, on corporate equipment, on corporate time - again, you don't know what you are talking about. You also can't selectively choose to believe the FBI on some things or others - they say they know who did it, the White House did as well - I'm going with them, for now. Sorry.
But I'm not going to argue back and forth with you, as you completely ignored the key question I asked you - as I thought you would. When people are grandstanding like they are on this issue, they don't want to look at the realities that the very real employees at Sony faced.
If you worked for Sony, and someone had all your personal information, the names of your children, your home address, social security number, medical records, access to untold amounts of your personal data, the US Government says that a foreign country is responsible, and they make SPECIFIC threats to your family and their safety multiple times - would YOU be so quick to put your family - and thousands of other employees families - at risk to put this garbage movie "on demand"?
