The caving in of Sony to cyberterrorism is one of the most egregious examples of corporate greed and cowardice now available to us.

I suppose you could claim it is a good thing to let their outlets off the contractual hook by allowing them to back down from showing “The Interview”, but we all know what the real motivator is: they want to avoid litigation in the highly unlikely but still remotely possible event real terrorism strikes a theater somewhere while the film is playing.

I doubt if I would have rushed to my local Gigaplex to see a Seth Rogan movie, Millennial humor fails to reach me, but now I suddenly feel a desperate urge to do so. Aside from the practical aspect of pre-emptive cyberdefense and standing up to terrorism in general, and the N Koreans in particular (Sony’s cowardice is only going to invite more of this nonsense), a perfect opportunity now exists to reflect the crime right back on its perpetrator.

Sony, (or perhaps even the hacker community) should put this film on the internet, for free, so the whole world can see it! If possible, it could even be beamed into N Korea, in translation, although I don’t know if there’s any technical way of doing this.

The idea that an attempt to stifle a very bad film by threats deserves to be rewarded by a circulation far in excess of any virtues the flick might intrinsically possess.

And after the feature, we could show a couple of Dutch Mohammed cartoons.