- The Newsroom creator Aaron Sorkin has a few words for journalists publishing leaked Sony documents. “Wouldn’t it be a movie moment if the other studios invoked the NATO rule and denounced the attack on Sony as an attack on all of us, and our bedrock belief in free expression?” he said in an op-ed for the New York Times website. To read more from the piece, click here.
- CBS is planning another spinoff of its hit series Criminal Minds. The previous attempt, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, lasted only 13 episodes. The new spinoff will focus on an elite FBI team of profilers working abroad. For more on the show, click here.
- Although popular torrenting website The Pirate Bay was out of service this week due to a police raid of its data center in Stockholm, Sweden, its absence had almost no effect on piracy activity. According to anti-piracy firm Excipio, the total number of IP addresses engaged in peer-to-peer downloads of tracked content dropped from 99.0 million on December 9 to 95.0 million and 95.6 million the following two days, before jumping back up to 100.2 million on December 12. To read more about The Pirate Bay and internet piracy, click here.
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