To: Sony Entertainment.

I am writing to you not only as a film-student, and as an avid filmgoer but also as an average American Citizen.

I understand the fear and paranoia that has permeated your offices the past month, due to your recent cyber attacks by the group calling themselves “The Guardians of Peace” which of course may or may not have ties with the North Korean government.

However I believe it is an act of cowardice to so easily given into the demands of such an anonymous group of individuals. Not simply as a company, but as artists, as Americans. As such I implore you to proudly embrace one of our most valued and sacred freedoms of all, the right to free speech.

Your recent film “The Interview” regardless if it is good or bad is a representation of that freedom, it is a social satire which at its core is supposed to spark humor and debate. You cannot bow down to the demands of such an attack, though I do understand the fear of harming innocent lives that simply seek nothing more that an escape through cinema. So as such I ask you, before you destroy any copy of this film, to release it on Video On Demand, so as to give us the option as consumers, and as Americans to choose to watch it or not.

Best Regards

Aaron E.

Note to the reader: I would like to get this petition into the right hands over at Sony Entertainment. However I do not have direct means of contact other than thier company site, and given the current situation that is an unreliable means of communication. So if anyone is affliated, or knows anyone that works at Sony Entertainment and may be able to get this into the right hands, please do contact me A-SAP.

Thank you.