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[Cyan]

This is totally Song of the South.

 

[Dice//]

Deadline has Pirates 5 being the movie being held for ransom.

https://deadline.com/2017/05/pirate...-men-tell-no-tales-hackers-ransom-1202094203/

Kinda funny choice, butt yeah I think Star Wars would have been the title people would actually pay ransom for (like an evil kickstarter).

 

[wisdom0wl]

Pirates ransoming the Pirates movie. At least hey have some humor

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Have these movies ever been about piracy anyway

Most pirate fiction isn't about actual piracy because that shit was just unpleasant.

 

[Crimson_Echidna]

I'm with the crowd that thinks this is a stupid move. Disney has changed entire laws to fit their own wants and are up there as one of the most powerful businesses in the world, I really can't see this ending well for them.

 

[Fuzzery]

Bad move, Disney could kill them

 

[LucidMomentum]

You don't get high quality leaks on release day. That takes months.

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]

You would think these companies would use Linux to protect their important stuff.

 

[ghostjoke]

I'm with the crowd that thinks this is a stupid move. Disney has changed entire laws to fit their own wants and are up there as one of the most powerful businesses in the world, I really can't see this ending well for them.

 

[Hex]

Thor.

Pirates is already close

 

[Septimus Prime]

When it happened to Orange is the New Black a few weeks ago, nobody cared and Netflix didn't bother paying.

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]

That is some balls. You don't fuck with The Mouse.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Yeah.

Only Movie that will have finished post and be being sent out is Pirates.

 

[mas8705]

Hackers: If you do not meet our demands, we will release Cars 3 onto the internet!

Internet:

 

[Boem]

Thor.

Pirates is already close

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.

 

[Patryn]

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.

 

[MattKeil]

Thor.

Pirates is already close

Thor isn't remotely done yet. Holding a workprint for ransom is pretty stupid.

It's Pirates.

 

[brandonh83]

My god, the situation along with the movie involved is pure gold.

 

[Hex]

If it is Pirates they should find Yoko Ono immediately.

 

[MetalFearSolid]

Damn wasn't Johnny Depp banking on this film for his comeback?

 

[Boem]

My god, the situation along with the movie involved is pure gold.

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.

 

[Josh5890]

The mouse will win this battle. The mouse always wins....

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

probably beaten to death but it somehow brings me joy and laughs from within:

"Maybe it was Jack Sparrow"

 

[Grug]

A movie about the making of this movie would be far more entertaining than the movie itself.

The stuff about Johnny Depp's dogs alone is hilarious.

 

[hodayathink]

You'd think a smaller name would be susceptible to something like this first, but Disney? Damn.

They did this to Netflix with the new season of Orange is the New Black. Netflix didn't pay either.

 

[NYR]

There are a handful of companies I would never want to be on the bad side of: Apple, Google and Disney.

Someone is about to be fucked hard.

 

[Raxus]

You'd think a smaller name would be susceptible to something like this first, but Disney? Damn.

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]

Ah fuc---Oh wait. It's Pirates 5?

 

[DerZuhälter]

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

Spoiler

Bobby Roberts

. I'm pretty sure that was a Disney decision.

 

[Slayven]

Just Pirates? Whew was worried it was some thing major

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Just Pirates? Whew was worried it was some thing major

Last Pirates was in the Billi Club, so this is big.

 

[Oozer3993]

You would think these companies would use Linux to protect their important stuff.

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.

 

[Schlorgan]

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

Spoiler

Bobby Roberts

. I'm pretty sure that was a Disney decision.

I KNEW IT!!

 

[Lifeline]

Nooooo, pls don't kill pirates. I hope it's star wars or something.

 

[itwasTuesday]

Toy Story was almost lost on an ipod.

And to the poor hacker group.

 

[Dusk Golem]

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]

All y'all calling TLJ a Disney movie is gonna cause Bobby to have an aneurysm.

It is a Disney movie though.

 

[Discotheque]

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.

 

[Szu]

Maybe it's this movie.

 

[EternalDarko]

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.

 

[shira]

This could actually be huge for Wonder Woman.

If PotC bombs that means they might double their IMAX and 3D screentime

 

[rekameohs]

When it happened to Orange is the New Black a few weeks ago, nobody cared and Netflix didn't bother paying.

It happened to Game of Thrones and Rick and Morty last year, too.

 

[LycanXIII]

If it's a digital copy, there's no way Disney would pay a ransom since they obviously have copies made already.

 

[Einchy]

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]

Deadline has Pirates 5 being the movie being held for ransom.

https://deadline.com/2017/05/pirate...-men-tell-no-tales-hackers-ransom-1202094203/

Poor dears will starve.

 

[Boem]

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.

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]

Good marketing stunt

 

[MisterHero]

I saw it

Luke is Jack Sparrow's real dad

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

If it's a digital copy, there's no way Disney would pay a ransom since they obviously have copies made already.

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.

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.

Did your dad have ties with people in the industry?

 

[DeathyBoy]

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.

Obama should've leaked it