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Stunned by a massive leak of sensitive documents, Sony Pictures Enterprises embarked Sunday on an attempt to contain the crisis by discouraging further media coverage of the leaked emails, which have embarrassed Hollywood stars and the studio's top executives.

Lawyer David Boies, writing on Sony's behalf to the Los Angeles Times and other news organizations, described the leaked material as "stolen information" and called on media outlets to destroy emails or other Sony documents in their possession.

First Amendment lawyers said that any attempt to block further publication of the material was likely to fail, and crisis management specialists said the effort could do Sony more harm than good.

The attempt to suppress coverage of the leaked information underscored how few options Sony has in responding to anonymous hackers who have thrown its business into turmoil, and who have shown no signs of relenting.

The hackers released a trove of sensitive data starting Nov. 24, including salaries of top executives and Social Security numbers of thousands of employees. The breach is expected to cost Sony tens of millions of dollars in computer security upgrades and damage control measures.

One series of emails showed studio Co-chairman Amy Pascal joking with producer Scott Rudin over whether President Obama prefers black-themed films such as "The Butler." Pascal and Rudin both apologized, but industry analysts have speculated that the emails could jeopardize the jobs of both Pascal and Chairman Michael Lynton.

A group calling itself Guardians of Peace has claimed responsibility, demanding that Sony cancel the Dec. 25 release of "The Interview," a comedy depicting a fictional assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The FBI is investigating the hack.

In his letter to media outlets, Boies wrote that the documents are "protected under U.S. and foreign legal doctrines protecting attorney-client privileged communications ... as well as private financial and other confidential information and communications."

Sony "does not consent to your possession, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading, or making any use of the stolen information, or making any use of the stolen information," wrote Boies, whose clients have included Microsoft Corp. and former Vice President Al Gore.

The Times stood by its coverage.

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If the only thing you want to do is stream Hitch on Netflix, then you can go ahead and skip this guide, and go check out all the media streamers that will surely meet your needs. If youve got the biggest TV of all your friends, a 7.2 surround sound system thats causing structural damage to your house, and yet you feel like something is still missing from your setup, then a media center PC might be just the trick.

Loading all of your movies, photos, music, and even video games wont be as easy as ordering a Roku on Amazon and waiting for it to arrive at your front door, but it will all be worth itwhen all you have to do is press one button on your remote to switch from Its Always Sunny toThe Lego Movie.

While you have a number of options for storing and playing back your media on a HTPC, one of the easiest and most reliable is an internal hard drive. A terabyte or two of storage gives you plenty of space to store movies, TV shows, and music, without having to worry about changing streaming services or renting Blu-ray discs. While a recent rise in the availability of streaming services has reduced the importance of internal storage, there are still plenty of sources for movies and music that require local storage.

Youll need to choose between a solid state drive and a mechanical drive for the Windows operating system. An SSD will feel quicker, but a traditional hard disk offers a much better per-gigabyte value, which is particularly appealing if you plan to store 4K movies locally.

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Cant decide? There are ways to compromise. You can buy a very small SSD for Windows alone and pair it with a big mechanical disk for files. There are also drives that blend a largesolid state cache with a disk, such as those from Seagate.

If you think anything less than a terabyte just wont do for your media files, buying a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device may be an even more efficient option. Rather than store all of your videos and photos locally, you could instead transfer them to a set of hard drives thats connected to your network.

Usually local networks have more than enough efficiency to carry even large files across your wireless network, and it comes along with a number of other advantages. Transferring files from your desktop to your HTPC is fast and easy, because you can just store them on the NAS, and youll have access to those files from all of your devices.

In some cases, the NAS may provide some extra features, such as access to the files from outside your local network, or redundant backups so that you never have to worry about permanently losing files. Its certainly an extra cost, but a few terabytes of networked storage in the right hands could be better than streaming.

Unlike most PCs, which benefit from more air-flow and a larger form factor, a HTPC should fit right in with the rest of the appliances around your television set. For this reason, most users choose a Mini or Micro ATX case and motherboard, rather than the standard ATX tower, since the cases are much smaller and come in various different dimensions.

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Ekrem Dumanli, editor-in-chief of the Zaman newspaper, waves to staff members while being arrested in Istanbul. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images

Turkish police have detained at least 23 people in orchestrated raids on opposition media outlets with close ties to the US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Glen, a key critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoan.

The raids came days after Erdoan announced a fresh operation against supporters of Glen, a former ally whom Erdoan accuses of having established a parallel organisation an influential network within state institutions such as the police and judiciary as well as within the media that aims to overthrow the Justice and Development party (AKP) government. Glen denies the charge.

The detained, including journalists, producers, scriptwriters, directors, police officers and two former police chiefs, are accused of forming an illegal organisation whose members engage in forgery and slander, according to a statement published by the Istanbul public prosecutors office.

During one raid a crowd of supporters assembled at the offices of the Zaman daily and chanted: The free press cannot be silenced. The newspapers editor-in-chief, Ekrem Dumanli, gave a defiant speech, widely publicised in Turkish media, in which he challenged police to arrest him. He was detained, as was the head of the Samanyolu Media Group, Hidayet Karaca.

This is a shameful sight for Turkey, Karaca told the press before he was seized by police. Sadly this is how they treat a media group with tens of television and radio stations, internet media and magazines in 21st-century Turkey.

The head of the main opposition Republican Peoples party (CHP), Kemal Kilidarolu, called the raids a coup against democracy and accused the AKP of leading a coup government.

[This] is not something that happens in healthy democracies. This is a coup process, Kilidarolu said. Detentions of journalists and dawn raids on television stations are not something we can accept under any circumstances.

Turkeys prime minister, Ahmet Davutolu, called the raids a test. This is the day of the test. Everyone will be held accountable for what they have done, and for their attitude toward democracy in this country, he said in an address to members of the AKP in eastern Turkey.

The power and influence of Glen and his network has long been a defining issue of Turkish politics. The domination of Erdogans AKP for more than a decade was aided by his alliance with Glen, and those who dared to criticise the Glen movement were swiftly punished.

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A Zaman media group journalist holds a banner as he stands outside the headquarters of Zaman daily newspaper in Istanbul December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

By Daren Butler and Humeyra Pamuk

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police raided media outlets close to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric on Sunday and detained 24 people including top executives and ex-police chiefs in operations against what President Tayyip Erdogan calls a terrorist network conspiring to topple him.

The raids on Zaman daily and Samanyolu television marked an escalation of Erdogan's battle with ex-ally Fetullah Gulen, with whom he has been in open conflict since a graft investigation targeting Erdogan's inner circle emerged a year ago.

In scenes broadcast live on Turkish TV channels, top-selling Zaman's editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanli smiled and studied police documents before being led through the newspaper's headquarters to applause from staff crowded onto balconies

"Let those who have committed a crime be scared," he said before police struggled to escort him through the crowds to a waiting car. "We are not scared."

Several hundred people chanted "The free press cannot be silenced" and "Turkey is proud of you".

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Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Hadi Salihoglu said in a statement arrest warrants had been issued for 31 people on charges of "establishing a terrorist group", forgery and slander.

In raids across EU-candidate Turkey, 24 people have been detained, including two former police chiefs, state broadcaster TRT Haber said. Also detained were Samanyolu's chairman and the staff of two Samanyolu drama series, one about an anti-terrorism squad and the other set in a southeast hit by Kurdish rebellion.

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