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Hackers claim to have stolen a Disney movie for ransom
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Dice//
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Kinda funny choice, butt yeah I think Star Wars would have been the title people would actually pay ransom for (like an evil kickstarter).
Pop-O-Matic
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Most pirate fiction isn't about actual piracy because that shit was just unpleasant.
Crimson_Echidna
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LucidMomentum
Member
The funny thing is, a lot of people don't care.
You see all those streaming sticks with day two camcorder copies of movies and people will eat it up.
IndoAssassin
Banned
You would think these companies would use Linux to protect their important stuff.
Septimus Prime
Member
Why would they? The hackers could leak the whole thing, and I doubt anyone would cancel their Netflix subscription over it.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
That is some balls. You don't fuck with The Mouse.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Yeah.
Only Movie that will have finished post and be being sent out is Pirates.
Only Movie that will have finished post and be being sent out is Pirates.
It's already confirmed it's Pirates.
It makes more sense if it's a movie relatively close to release anyway. Prints of a movie that's more or less done will be all over the place for prepping for (international) release, dubbing, subtitling, marketing, etc. Whenever a movie leaks early, it's usually through a third party like that.
Kinda funny choice, butt yeah I think Star Wars would have been the title people would actually pay ransom for (like an evil kickstarter).
I have little doubt that the security surrounding Star Wars is far more than that surrounding Pirates.
brandonh83
Banned
My god, the situation along with the movie involved is pure gold.
MetalFearSolid
Banned
Damn wasn't Johnny Depp banking on this film for his comeback?
This story and all the weird Depp stuff really is great. What's extra hilarious to me is that somehow they got Paul McCartney to play a pirate in this one:
I probably will never end up seeing this particular movie (and hell, it might end up decent for fans of this stuff, I have no idea), but all the behind the screen stuff sounds like the kind of Hollywood shenanigans you'd see in a Coen Brothers movie.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
probably beaten to death but it somehow brings me joy and laughs from within:
"Maybe it was Jack Sparrow"
"Maybe it was Jack Sparrow"
hodayathink
Member
They did this to Netflix with the new season of Orange is the New Black. Netflix didn't pay either.
Much like the Orange is the New Black ransom it isn't so much Netflix as 3rd party studios that finalize things like sound mixing that get caught and completed to nearly complete projects leak out.
Imperial Bishop
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Ah fuc---Oh wait. It's Pirates 5?
DerZuhälter
Member
Yeah it's all around the known sites and it's The Last Jedi. They are leaking unfinished dialogue scenes and apparently Rey's father is
. I'm pretty sure that was a Disney decision.
Bobby Roberts
Pop-O-Matic
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Last Pirates was in the Billi Club, so this is big.
This may not have been hacked. This may be a good, old fashioned "disc down the pants" deal. That's pretty much how a workprint of Episode III leaked on the day of release.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
Toy Story was almost lost on an ipod.
And to the poor hacker group.
And to the poor hacker group.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
This may not have been hacked. This may be a good, old fashioned "disc down the pants" deal. That's pretty much how a workprint of Episode III leaked on the day of release.
True story here, there was someone leaking the episodes 1-3 of Star Wars. I was just a kid back then but for some reason my dad had a disk for Episode 1 half a year before the movie aired. He didn't post any of it online or share it outside our home to my knowledge, I have no idea how or where he got it, I didn't really fully understand at the time and only loosely remember it as it had similar time stamps to the picture you posted and some unfinished effects (we ended up watching the final movie in theaters anyway which was a bit redundant to me at the time but whatever), but I very distinctively remember this.
Part of me feels I shouldn't share that, but it was years ago now.
Green Ninja
Banned
It is a Disney movie though.
Discotheque
Banned
man the irony that its Pirates is crazy.
oh well, still seeing it in theaters. Kon Tiki Hemlers looks to be bringing it back to that massive Verbinski-trilogy style of setpieces.
oh well, still seeing it in theaters. Kon Tiki Hemlers looks to be bringing it back to that massive Verbinski-trilogy style of setpieces.
EternalDarko
Member
Even if they release it, who gives a shit. Blu-ray releases of films somehow get out there while films are still in theatrical release all the time.
Disney shouldn't pay shit. But they need to sort out their security cos that's just really shitty IT work there.
Disney shouldn't pay shit. But they need to sort out their security cos that's just really shitty IT work there.
It happened to Game of Thrones and Rick and Morty last year, too.
Game of Thrones was 2 years ago during season 5. They ended up not sending out any episodes to press for season 6 (2016's) because of it.
Obama still got the full season, though.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Poor dears will starve.
Your dad is secretly George Lucas.
It would have been harder for the movie to be widely shared online back in 98/99 though. Not impossible, but not quite as easy as it is now.
Supervlieg
Member
Good marketing stunt
MisterHero
Super Member
I saw it
Luke is Jack Sparrow's real dad
Luke is Jack Sparrow's real dad
PeakPointMatrix
Member
The threat isn't a master copy being held ransom so that the studio can't release it. It's having a film that isn't out yet illegally released in chunks for the public to see "potentially" costing the studio in millions of lost sales since people can see a version months earlier than intended.
Did your dad have ties with people in the industry?
Obama should've leaked it