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Sony Blunders By Uploading Full Movie To YouTube Instead of Trailer (torrentfreak.com)
Instead of uploading a trailer of "Khali the Killer," an upcoming move from Sony Pictures Entertainment, the conglomerate accidentally uploaded the entire movie on Google's video platform, according to users. TorrentFreak: When we started writing this article the movie had around 8,000 views. Just a few paragraphs later that had swelled to almost 11,000. However, while news may be traveling quickly, those numbers probably won't reach epic levels anytime soon.
As usual, the comments on YouTube are absolutely brutal. The section includes gems such as "Trailer gave the whole plot away. Pass," "It's just the trailer the whole movie will be 4 hours," and the rather blunt "Someone's getting the sackï."
As usual, the comments on YouTube are absolutely brutal. The section includes gems such as "Trailer gave the whole plot away. Pass," "It's just the trailer the whole movie will be 4 hours," and the rather blunt "Someone's getting the sackï."
Try uploading the video file as a thumbnail by accident. YouTube will upload the whole file before rejecting it as being too big to be a thumbnail.
Goodbye, Slashdot!
...I would like to see more trailers like this. For every film.
I have a "Zero Policy" tolerance.
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Thanks! I needed a good laugh today, to get my mind off my own mistakes.
However much you have effed up yourself, there is always a bigger idiot who did something bigger.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
"and nothing of value was lost" comes to mind
Now, let those who hate SONY begin trolling the poor company.
I used to love their products. Not any more.
I can see someone getting fired, fast!
Maybe I'm cynical... but I wouldn't be surprised if this was done on purpose to get people talking about the movie that otherwise no one would have heard of.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Ha, ha!
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
still Piracy and they can sue people who downloaded it or at least try to bully them into an copyright settlement
Dam I must forgot to set the PPV movie flag!
I still don't care and won't watch it.
I assume that, because of the TOS, now the copyright for the movie belongs to, or is fully shared, with Google?
still Piracy and they can sue people who downloaded it
And how exactly will they prove a particular person downloaded it? I know of a place where a single IP is shared among several folks between two floors of a huge apartment complex.
And BTW, since when has an IP been deemed a person?
Nope. The company distributed it themselves.
"Khali the Killer" see Epic Fail?
"...uploading this trailer is taking so long... I'm going out for a latte."
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
Yeah, riiight!
I remember them being caught, deliberately uploading their entire music collection since it raised their profits (aka how much they leech off of artists, the fuckin' thieves)!
Exactly. This is piracy the same way watching a movie on Netflix is piracy: it's not.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I can understand copyright infringement when a movie is still in the theaters. However, once the video is made available to you, you are free to make a backup copy for your own purposes. No one knows when or how you made the backup. *hint*, *hint*
Free loophole for everyone to exploit.. kinda like reprogramming DirecTV cards. Enjoy it now, this all goes away within the next 10 years when blockchain DRM becomes the norm
-dk
This is exactly why I hate seeing trailers these days... they practically spoil the whole movie!
Nope. The company distributed it themselves.
You can watch it, but you can't legally download it.
You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content.
That's just a technicality.
There is no distinction between watching it and downloading. From a server perspective it is the same. Hint, you have to download to watch.
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“After deciding to retire, an East L.A. hit man decides to take one last job to help support his ailing grandmother’s end of life care. But everything falls apart, when he develops empathy for the targets of his hit, and he’s forced to make the toughest decision of his life,” - Sony Promo
After reading the promo, I'm not even interested in watching the trailer.
They just pirated a movie and uploaded it to YouTube. Go get em!
Depends on the judge and whether they determine that simply uploading the file to YouTube constitutes a carte blanche license to the entire world. I suspect it probably doesn't. I mean it's probably grey enough that Sony wouldn't bother pursuing it (especially since it would be nearly impossible to identify "infringers") and it is their fault after all but if for some crazyassed reason, they did decide to take it to a judge.. I wouldnt put a whole lot of faith in the judge deeming it a legal licensing.
People actually care enough to bother watching this crap?
Maybe I'm cynical... but I wouldn't be surprised if this was done on purpose to get people talking about the movie that otherwise no one would have heard of.
Ah, but by doing this, they have finally released a movie that won't get pirated. TAKE THAT, INTERWABZ PIRATES!
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
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It used to be the case that trailers were separately-produced promotional shorts. It was slightly before my time, but I think my favorite is the one Hitchcock did for The Birds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
#DeleteChrome
The various frivolous lawsuits surrounding copyright claims in the past 20 or so years have passed you by?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Guess this movie must be their rock-bottom, now they can't even rely on torrents anymore to get their movies distributed, they even have to do that themselves now. Talk about desperation!
But it kinda tells you something if even for free only about 11k people gave a fuck. There are literally movies that aren't even worth the time it takes to watch them, let alone pay to see them.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
No, it's pretty cut and dry. Copyright infringement occurs when an unauthorized party makes a copy. By uploading to YouTube, you agree, as per YouTube's terms of use, to authorize them to distribute the content.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I can finally talk about a movie with my friends the weekend it's released!
Maybe itâ(TM)s a movie to advertise the trailer
I made it a habit to always archive leaked state/corporate malware.
I assume Sony has the rights to distribute the movie. Even if they don't (other production companies etc) they are committing the main infringement. In this case watching it is dubious, but it can be argued that a normal consumer has no reason to doubt or could know that a movie uploaded on an official Sony account is in any way dubious.
Torrentfreak isn't a "we." It's a guy named Andy who runs a clickbait blog from his living room and sources everything he writes from Reddit.