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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)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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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.
Do what, exactly? There is nothing they can do. The movie would have ended up on pirate sites eventually anyways, because they all do. There is no stopping piracy, especially because media providers are such greedy shit stains.
I would never have gotten back into piracy if it wasn't for media providers being such assholes. Give me one provider that has it all, forever for the same fee, that allows me to use my own UI, and I'd gladly pay that monthly fee.
Piracy is a drag, it takes huge amounts of time and money and a lot of times the complete experience is sub-par. Sometimes the sub titles aren't properly synced, and its always awesome that when at the end of a long day, you want to watch a movie with your wife, but you first need to spend 30 minutes properly syncing the sub titles, if they match at all and dont drift over time... I really prefer to pay a provider to do it all for me, but they can't seem to do it without without wanting to steal my first born... So piracy it is, but YOU, Netflix, Hulu and all other shit providers, caused this
It is absolutely wild that people take a fuckin' movie that seriously.
We're very strange monkeys on a rock.
🤣 I was about to comment the same thing... These assholes are more careful with fucking movies than our healthcare data
It's all because of money, and money is power. But yes we little monkeys have a worrisome preoccupation with that power.
Piracy team? You mean they'd pay me for what I do for free??
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.
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.