• postman@literature.cafe
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    10 hours ago

    I know the answer is in the article but tye headline doesn’t make clear if Netflix sued or are being sued. My 2 cents.

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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.

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      It is absolutely wild that people take a fuckin’ movie that seriously.

      We’re very strange monkeys on a rock.

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        🤣 I was about to comment the same thing… These assholes are more careful with fucking movies than our healthcare data

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        It’s all because of money, and money is power. But yes we little monkeys have a worrisome preoccupation with that power.

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      Their piracy teams will

      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

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      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??

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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    Tech companies “move fast and break things”. Their answers would be “What standards, we’re not in the movie industry, we’re a ‘tech’ company”

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      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.

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    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.