Sony’s lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action if the social networking company doesn’t not ban accounts that are sharing documents leaked from the hack.
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The letter sent from David Boies, a lawyer hired by Sony to advise the company through the troubled times, to Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s general counsel, reads that if “stolen information continues to be disseminated by Twitter in any manner,” Sony will “hold Twitter responsible for any damage or loss arising from such use or dissemination by Twitter.”
Apart from the state bureaucracy, Sony has been starting a war of its own, attacking anyone who dares, in its eyes, aid exacerbate the company’s problems. The letter continues:
SPE does not consent to Twitter’s or any Twitter account holder’s possession, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading, or making any use of the Stolen Information, and to request your cooperation in suspending the Account Holder’s Twitter account and the account of any other user seeking to disseminate the Stolen Information via Twitter.
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Sony asked that Twitter share the legal threat with Twitter user and musician Val Broeksmit, who has been posting screenshots of hacked Sony emails on Twitter.
“We ask that you provide the Account Holder with a copy of this letter, and request that the Account Holder cease publication of the Stolen Information on Twitter.”
Sony further demanded that Twitter “comply with all future requests with regard to any other account holder seeking to disseminate the Stolen Information via Twitter.”
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the letter is authentic but declined to comment further. When asked whether the company would be deleting Broeksmit’s tweets, the spokesperson noted that, right now, the tweets are still live on the site.
You can have a look at the entire letter below.
