The US Government has determined that North Korea is indeed behind the Sony hack. And now Sony has cancelled release of The Interview following the hackers’ threats to wage terrorism on US theaters that show it. Read all about it here.

Now I have to watch what even Sony itself (according to hacked internal e-mails) believed was a crappy movie, just because that crazy commie country cannot get away with forcing the cancellation of a movie with threats of committing acts of violence in the United States. (Don’t think it’s a crappy movie? Watch the trailer.) It was bad enough that they committed unprecedented cybercrime, but threatening to kill Americans, in our own country, for showing a film? This must not stand.

Sony should either release the movie on the Internet, or accidentally on purpose leave a clean digital copy of it on the counter at the nearest Starbucks, and arrange for someone to upload it and distribute it over the Internet. This bad movie will become a worldwide sensation, and Fathead will be a planetary laughingstock.

Tonight, production on a new thriller starring Steve Carell and based in North Korea has now been cancelled. So film studios are afraid that what happened to Sony will happen to them. It is easy to imagine that studios and publishers will be intimidated into canceling or never taking on all kinds of projects on a wide variety of topics, simply out of legitimate fear of cybercrime or worse. Troubling.

I cannot believe I have to submit myself to the torture of watching James Franco onscreen, but it’s my patriotic duty. Come on, Sony, let us have the movie.

UPDATE: Yep:

254 theaters (2,623 screens in 37 states) just dropped a Seth Rogan movie because they are afraid of a country the subsists on bugs & grass

— Michael C Moynihan (@mcmoynihan) December 17, 2014