The Interview is a film made by Sony Pictures about the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, with the main actors Seth Rogen si James Franco. The film was the basis of the biggest hack made against the Sony Pictures production house, terabits of confidential data being retrieved from its servers.
This hack motivated them on those from Sony Pictures to cancel the presentations for The Interview from certain cinemas, trying to convince certain companies to distribute the film online. Apple was among the companies contacted to distribute the film The Interview through iTunes, but refused to do so, for reasons quite clear.
Although those from Sony have not completely canceled the launch The Interview in cinemas in favor of online distribution, the company was looking for partners for such a project. Probably having no luck in finding anyone interested in a collaboration, he decided to screen on Christmas day in certain cinemas, with the release taking place after that.
It remained unclear, however, whether any on-demand service would take "The Interview." According to people briefed on the matter, Sony had in recent days asked the White House for help in lining up a single technology partner — Apple, which operates iTunes — but the tech company was not interested, at least not on a speedy time table. An Apple spokesperson declined to comment.
In order to convince Apple, the people from Sony also appealed to the White House, but no one from Cupertino was really that impressed. It seems that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), would not agree with the broadcast of The Interview in a broadcast program, but it is not known if next year he will change his decision to distribute the film through his network.
The Apple company has one of the best online security systems, and the decision to avoid The Interview is normal, although it could change quickly.
