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Recently Sony Pictures Entertainment was the target in a series of cyber attacks.
It shut down the company's computers, revealing employee information and email exchanges between Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony and other executives.
Yesterday attorney David Boies sent a strongly worded letter to news organizations asking them not to publish information from the massive data dump.
The letter, sent to a variety of news organizations including the New York Times, referred to the documents as "stolen information" and demanded that the files be ignored, or destroyed
Here's a copy of the letter that was sent to the tech news site, RE/code. But does the letter have any legal merit?
To find out more on the legal questions raised by the Sony hack and the letter, we talk to Eugene Volokh, he's a law professor at UCLA and founder of the legal blog, the Volokh Conspiracy.