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$15 million in online sales and rentals alone. as this unfolded, gaming experts were knocked out of service over the holidays by a group calling itself the lizard squad. they claimed to take down the network earlier in december as well. for more on all of this, the senior writer and tech expert joining us very much. my apologies. sam, will this roll out change the movie business, the fact that it was released online? could it change the dynamic and the relationship between theaters and production companies? >> this is not what sony wanted. that's most important. this withstand from being an un...

The revenue split is 70-30. when you consider the studio originally expected to make 20 million before the hack attack 18 million, it's not bad. it challenged the existing distribution model breaking the monopoly of the big theater chains. so aside from the scandal, that could be the biggest takeaway of the entire episode. >> sony got some other good news. the playstation network is back up and running. tell us about that. >> they got hacked on christmas morning, a group calling itself the lizard squad, knocked playstation out of commission. in an interview with -- over skype with our sister n...

Koreans after all. now claiming it was most likely russians who waged digital war against the studio. they looked at the writing samples of guardians of peace say it matched the russian language. the firm says it is unlikely the country was involved. even after the major hack controversial film "the interview has success. making 60 million on-line becoming sony's number one on-line movie of all times. >> play station is back up and running after hackers took down the gaming network. >> sony is announcing play station's network is back on-line after hackers heeded christmas day. group called li...

And running again after hackers forced millions of gamers offline. and now, one of those accused of being behind the cyber attack is coming forward. live in los angeles with more on that. william? >> reporter: john, the fbi is investigating reportedly a finnish teenager who says his group hacked sony play station because he said facetiously, he wanted kids to spend more time with their families and to prove a point. sony and microsoft made enough money and they should spend more of it on signer security. this group calls itself the lizard squad. they hacked play station christmas morning preve...

Breath. he is 90 years old and suffers form a form of parkinson's disease, which allow us him to get around in a wheelchair. sony announcing some positive news about the movie the interview causing a lot of controversy, but it's turns out it's a good thing for sony. the film brought in $15 million during it's first four days. the film was released in -- the film was renteded or purchased online 2 million times. sony was forced to offer the movie digitally when theaters refuse ed to refused to ---the hacker activist group known as lizard squad claims responsibility for disrupting both the pla...