Netflix Sued For $105 Million After Hard Drive of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office

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.

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??

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

On the other hand, you'd expect that drive to be in a safe when not in use, surely?

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

We're very strange monkeys on a rock.

Heads weast

"Netflix sued" would mean they are being sued, "Netflix sues" means they are doing the suing.

Nice catch. I read it as "was sued" vs "has sued" without noticing. I should read more carefully.

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.