Sony is having a terrible year. The company's plants in Japan were seriously damaged by an earthquake and ensuing tsunami, hackers hacked many of their websites into a non-working state, whilst stealing 100 million customers financial and private data from their servers, which created massive financial loss, later reflected in their significant decrease in revenues.

If all that wasn't enough, a Sony distribution center in Canning Town, East London, was set on fire by people rioting for the fourth night in a row. For Sony, when it rains it pours. Beside News Corp, the Judiciary Report can't think of a company with more misery and trouble right now.