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Played on their lawyers' fears of liability and risk. and what happened? they pulled the movie. what kind of precedent does that set? and what kind of floodgate is it going to unleash as other people want to get other americans to shut up or pull their products from the shelves? >> yeah. david, what should sony have done to set the right example here? >> well, i think, in the first instance, sony should've said we're not intimidated, we stand behind artistic freedom. we're going to take precautions to protect those, perhaps, that are going to see this in the theater. we'll distribute it via me...

Appropriate to make jokes about real things. >> did you think about changing his name at all? like calling him phil jong un? >> we did. and then we thought whose feelings are we trying to spare by doing that? kim jong un? >> that probably wouldn't have worked. this afternoon, we hear they have planned media appearances are cancelled for this movie, "the interview." it's coming out on christmas day. sony just introduces this today along with the new threat in which they actually infer to the 9/111 attacks and warn people to stay away from the places where the interview will be shown. those ar...

And many, many of the company's employees 47,000 social security numbers. just massive. now, former employees of the company have filed a class action law suits saying that sony itself failed to properly secure some of that sensitive employee data. at this point, let's be clear. nobody knows who's behind this sony hack. it's denied involvement, but it did call the hack a righteous deed. north korea took offense. it uses a plot to kill kim jong un. >> lags night, one of the stars of the interview was asked about it on the colbert report. >> is it appropriate to make jokes about real things in t...

Starting three weeks ago. the hackers, who call themselves guardians of peace, took down sony's computer system posting a warning that the breech was just a beginning, promising to expose the company's secrets if it did not, "obey the group." >> the new james bond film including some embarrassing notes from executives. the hackers posted internal e-mails that included racially tinged jokes about president obama's potential movie viewing hablts and messages in which company executives insult wig time directors and upcoming time directors and upcoming sony films. they revealed the personal data