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Netflix Sued For $105 Million After Hard Drive of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office
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infinitesunriseNetflix will win the suit. A single producer delivering by hand an unencrypted, unprotected DCP is not standard operating procedure in Hollywood. Netflix would have expected the distributor or studio to deliver a case containing a specialized hardened drive, encrypted files unique to that specific copy, meant in some cases to be played only once directly off the drive. A solo producer rolling up with unencrypted, untracked files is wildly negligent by industry standards. Op-Fortitude is just trying to cover their ass with this suit, and it’s probably too late.
Also as someone who has worked in film I found this line from the Netflix exec humorous: “We’ve been working through this with out security teams to no luck. Our piracy teams are on high alert with the breach and will monitor.” Yeah no, what’s been happening is that the security and piracy teams are dealing with a lot of strung out high-demand verbose producers and then turning around and going about their day as usual, good riddance.
Yeah, not the same industry, but I’d never dream of putting valuable stuff on an unencrypted drive, shocked anyone has somehow missed all the stories of laptops getting stolen with secret documents on etc over the years.
One of my coworkers was once tasked with taking an encrypted database over to a hospital via sneakernet. He posted a selfie to twitter while on the subway with the handcuffed device, saying he was doing James Bond missions or something to that affect. He got a call SO FAST by our irate director asking him WTF he thought he was doing.
Our piracy teams are on high alert with the breach and will monitor.
Piracy team? You mean they’d pay me for what I do for free??
On the other hand, you’d expect that drive to be in a safe when not in use, surely?
You would expect a lot of security measures that aren’t actually ever followed at a lot of companies because they cost money. And I don’t mewn that the safe costs money. Paying someone to manage the safes and ensure they are used correctly (like no sticky note with the combo on the side). That is where the real cost is.
ScrubblesTech companies “move fast and break things”. Their answers would be “What standards, we’re not in the movie industry, we’re a ‘tech’ company”
Tech companies hoping to keep certifications that allow them to get customers do not “move fast and break things”. This kind of ghetto process should definitely hurt business.
For instance: at my day job where I tech-whore to big ents and govs, about 10% of our time is spent only in meetings where we review what’s happening and how: and that kind of transfer would have a schedule, stakeholder sign-off and listed processes to follow and review. There’s post-incident reviews and follow-ups in case of the slightest deviation or surprise, and the process is refined each time. That kind of sloppy work wouldn’t survive.
I know the answer is in the article but the headline doesn’t make clear if Netflix sued or are being sued. My 2 cents.
Nice catch. I read it as “was sued” vs “has sued” without noticing. I should read more carefully.
funkajunk 🇨🇦“Netflix sued” would mean they are being sued, “Netflix sues” means they are doing the suing.
I mean… even if the drive hadn’t been stolen it would likely have been leaked online before release anyway.
Sounds like they’re just trying to get a free payday. I hate Netflix and hope they settle out, but i don’t really see the lawsuit holding water.
Dude looks like Austin Powers post midlife crisis.
“aging should be illegal”
- this is what you sound like.
It really should be. We should be putting all the peoeple that direct trillions to the military instead of medical research in jail.
I’m talking about his features numbnuts, not his age. Don’t project your insecurity bullshit on to me, I’m not interested.
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Was it stolen by Nicolas Cage as part of the plot of the next National Treasure movie?
I was gonna say, is this another meta nick cage movie??!
It belongs in a museum!
And they were gone in 60 seconds! Almost as if driven by a ghost rider.
And melted their face off as it was driven into a rock, by cons…air.
Rumble fish
And the crash was so loud that it stirred up a nest of angry bees.
BEEEES!!!
AH, THEY’RE IN MY EYES!
MY EYES!! AAAAAGGHHH!!!!!!!……..
Oh please, let it be this
Ooh, ooh, Nick Cage as Charlie Kaufman writing and then stealing a National Treasure adaptation.
Would watch.
I’m not pro-Netflix, but not encrypting a high quality copy of your unreleased big budget movie is a bonehead move on the part of the producer.
My non legally binding judgement would be a couple of hundred against Netflix for the loss of the hard drive.
That was the judgement. Have you seen hardware prices lately? They are just paying for that 2tb disk.
lmao I read “Movie” as “Movies” and for a brief moment believed the world was a much more exciting place
Is the lawsuit implying that anyone would watch that crap?
there are nicolas cage fans. some of them don’t know he’s a coppola and only took the stage name cage to seem more down to earth.
The Debate is real
He did a great job in that all-white remake of The Color Purple