Then I would think that veto power would be extended to all the creditors. If it is, maybe that little tidbit was omitted because it would remove some of the zing from the article.

I'm curious as to why the broadcasters were given any voice over the sale.

I would think that the court would allow any sale to go through that would maximize the funds available to pay off Aereo's creditors, whether or not the broadcasters are considered to be among those creditors.

To bring this thread to its logical conclusion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

The appropriate thing to do, obviously, is to hit the child with the cat.

Good golly! We were building airline cockpit equipment using this technology back around 1982.

Before Sony canceled the release, George Clooney circulated a petition around the Hollywood studios expressing support for Sony in their determination to release "The Interview". He couldn't get a single signature.

So, yeah, I think everyone in Hollywood is afraid of putting a target on their own backs right now, and no one is certain about their IT security.

Actually, it is reportedly Paramount that forbade the public showing of the movie.

Not anymore. Paramount nixed it:
http://popcultureblog.dallasne...

There was a time when the NRA was willing to compromise and accepted some restrictions.

The problem was, around the mid-to-late 1980's, they found that they would accept a compromise, and then find themselves back a the table six months later with a new "compromise" being proposed. Groups like HCI just kept moving the goalposts, and then publicly accused the NRA of refusing to accept "reasonable legislation" when the NRA balked.

The NRA finally just decided they were going to start refusing offers to compromise as a policy.

And a thriller set in North Korea, staring Steve Carell, has also been dropped:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...

Or, as others suggested, stream it. Cable operators and Netflix would be decentralized enough to not be an easy target. They should have their act together WRT network security, as well.

Even if they were actually physically targeted, there probably wouldn't be any human casualties. Just a lot of cut wires.

I would pay for a streaming event just to give the middle finger to these guys.

I couldn't have cared less about the movie. It didn't really sound like my kind of humor.

But after the threat was made, I was planning on seeing it just to show the (newly become) terrorists what I think of them.

I'd have liked this to be Sony's most successful release of the year.

I'm getting mixed messages from the news, though. Has the release been completely scrubbed, or are they just canceling the formal premier?

Actually, we've already been through a round of this. After the Northridge quake, they retroactively applied new building codes to commercial buildings and required them to be updated, whether there was any damage to the building from the quake or not, and irrespective of whether new construction was being done. (A lot of times, when new construction is done an inspector will require additional changes to other parts of the site to comply with up to date codes.)

I was working for a property management company a couple of years after the quake and they were trying to argue with the city about it.

Youtube is going to need to dramatically increase their server capacity. There's a lot of non-information posted there.

Or maybe the computer will automatically add additional... um... "services" to your order.