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Netflix sued for stolen hard drive of an unenrypted Nicolas Cage movie. Which one of you did that???
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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Popal24 on 2026-07-30 21:09:13+00:00.
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djdarrenWas it stolen by Nicolas Cage as part of the plot of the next National Treasure movie?
massive_bereavementAnd they were gone in 60 seconds! Almost as if driven by a ghost rider.
gedaliyahOoh, 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.
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??
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”
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.
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