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Netflix Sued For $105 Million After Hard Drive of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Netflix 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.
I'm surprised he wasn't stopped. I can't imagine the authorities would look very kindly on someone handcuffed to a thing they're holding, encrypted database or no.
Why?
It'd seem a bit suspicious, wouldn't it?
And what law would it violate?
I don't see how or why. You're obviously carrying something of value. If anything you'd be more concerned about attracting criminal attention. You're not doing anything illegal, and no cop wants to mess with anybody rich enough to afford handcuffed couriers.
Piracy team? You mean they'd pay me for what I do for free??
It is absolutely wild that people take a fuckin' movie that seriously.
We're very strange monkeys on a rock.
Not that wild when you realize that 100’s of millions of dollars are on the line.
It's all because of money, and money is power. But yes we little monkeys have a worrisome preoccupation with that power.
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.