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Disney Chief Bob Iger Says Hackers Claim To Have Stolen Upcoming Movie (hollywoodreporter.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Hollywood Reporter: Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed Monday that hackers claiming to have access to a Disney movie threatened to release it unless the studio paid a ransom. Iger didn't disclose the name of the film, but said Disney is refusing to pay. The studio is working with federal investigators. Iger's comments came during a town hall meeting with ABC employees in New York City, according to multiple sources. The Disney chief said the hackers demanded that a huge sum be paid in Bitcoin. They said they would release five minutes of the film at first, and then in 20-minute chunks until their financial demands are met. While movie piracy has long been a scourge, ransoms appear to be a new twist. UPDATE: According to Deadline, the movie in question appears to be the upcoming film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Disney appears to be working with the FBI and will not pay the ransom.
Could the title be interpreted as a threat to the hackers? I wonder if it was recently changed.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Too bad they already misappropriated the term piracy for online file sharing. This seems more fitting of the name. Ironic, given the content of the theft.
Watch for Penguins, they eat Apples and throw rocks at Windows.
If you can pirate a big name franchise before it hits theaters, but we still see huge ticket sales, then we can finally agree that piracy has no real impact on film profits.
no wonder Disney refused.
AKA... Pirates of the Caribbean: Lets Kick A Dead Horse One More Time.
So it's a movie about pirates that's been "pirated" and a ransom has been asked but won't be paid because hopefully the "heroes" will save the day. I don't know if I should file that under irony, inception, recursive and/or funny.
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That Jack Sparrow has been dispatched and will resolve the issue after a brief, but tumultuous, fight ensues.
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"Give us the moneys or we show the movie critics how awful it is!" warned the pirates.
In other news, this is the lamest publicity stunt ever.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I read that in the voice of "Karl Hungus". "Give us the money Lebowski!"
Who would have ever thought?
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What an idiot Iger is. He continues to outsource more and more of the company and then is surprised that it is being cracked.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
it happened to one of those x-men movie where a pre production cut was leaked like a full month before release it had little to no affect on sales. but it is a first to demand a ransom.
Did shipping jobs overseas backfire?
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Disney has done some bad things recently (cough-H1B-cough) but I'm kinda glad they refused to pay. And I have a stronger urge to see this film in the theater, regardless of whether the criminals release it or not.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
In other news, this is the lamest publicity stunt ever.
I think the "oh my god, we had to make Clooney's / Routh's costumes twice as roomy in front as Kilmer's / Reeve's" beats that by a country mile
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
in fact they do.if nobody every payed then nobody would ever do it.
Lets all chip in to keep this Disney movie from being released.
I'm afraid the studio is going to ask quite a bit more than the hackers to keep it off the screens.
Have gnu, will travel.
STOP storing your movies on internet-connected computers or at the very least, encrypt them. You know what hackers can't steal? An encrypted movie file with the decryption key on a sticky note on your monitor. Well okay, they CAN steal it but they wouldn't be able to decrypt it.
They stated they would release the first 5 minutes of the movie then 20 minute chunks after unless there ransom was paid so with the current before credits scenes in modern moves how many releases do they do to do before they get to the actual movie? lol
I wouldn't pay for that movie either
Nobody wants cams.
As in, Disney no longer has it?
'Cause that's what "stolen" means.
They hire Indian immigrants on the H-1B Visa program and lay-off hard-working American Engineers. Who really cares is a lame Disney movie got stolen. Good riddance.
The Movie is so bad that Disney Management decided to plant this story to make sure that people go to see it when it is released?
Wasn't there a story recently where Johnny Depp was fed his lines in the Movie through an earpiece because he couldn't be bovvered to learn them they were so bad? (or something like that)
As Disney are bloodsucking leeches of a company, I hope it flops anyway.
I'd rather be riding my '63 Triumph T120.
I wasn't joking on that part. It's an obvious PR stunt.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Even if the hackers were going to make the movie worthless, it's a hit Disney could afford to take. And might as well, in order to prevent future extortion attempts.
And piracy will hardly affect it at all. Most people don't want a rough cut of a movie. And an action movie like PotC needs the big screen. DVD sales are most likely to be affected, and that will be pirated as soon as it's released anyway.
Plus no-one who is going to see this in the theater is going to not do so now that they can see the movie 20 minutes at a time on their laptop.
And also, people who are interested in getting pirated copies of the movies will get one at the thousands other leaks/bootleg/screen cap/DVD-screener/Web-DL/whatever that will pop up in the following months.
Even if Disney *did* decide to pay, and the blackmailer were "honest" and destroyed their copy, that wouldn't stop the countless others.
It's just basically about one more extra download link at your usual download/dtreaming spot.
It's just not worth for Disney to pay.
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Seriously. Disney has such a trackrecord as a bad company I can't even muster a shrug. And, btw., who would want to watch that movie anyway? PotC #5 it is or something? Give me a break. If I had that movie on my disk I would probably delete it without watching, to free up some space. I can imagine countless other things to way better spend 2.5 hours of my life.
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They stole copyright from the world, so one movie in return is not that bad.
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Did they take everything that was done and then delete it from Disney? I'm not sure what the big deal is, otherwise... release it in Theathres. People that planned on seeing it will see it. People that didn't, won't.
Publicity stunt anyone?
No good deed goes unpunished.
He said the last Indiana Jones movie was so bad, Harrison Ford is getting raped in the next one.