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Sony Blunders By Uploading Full Movie To YouTube Instead of Trailer (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the oops-i-did-it-again dept.

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."

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  1. If you think that's bad... by cre1mer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Dear Sony... by Volatile_Memory · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I would like to see more trailers like this. For every film.

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  3. Shadenfreude by Misagon · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  4. Maybe I'm cynical... by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:Maybe I'm cynical... by religionofpeas · · Score: 2

      Exactly. A couple thousand views is hardly a significant loss of potential sales.

    2. Re:Maybe I'm cynical... by bahwi · · Score: 2

      That's what I was thinking too. Why would marketing even have the entire film in the same directory as the trailer? Wouldn't it just be emailed across the company network or somesuch?

      And didn't they notice it taking even many further hours to upload.

    3. Re:Maybe I'm cynical... by JackieBrown · · Score: 2

      Why would marketing even have access to the whole movie?

    4. Re: Maybe I'm cynical... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I work in the industry and upload trailers and complete screeners of the entire film all the time. The trailer and the film are often the same file size because my trailer is usually in 4K ProRes HQ which will be about 4gb. My screener is compressed heavily to H264 and also usually about 4gb. They could be named similarly as well and in the same folder. So I see exactly how this could happen.

    5. Re:Maybe I'm cynical... by xlsior · · Score: 2

      Except it would have been trivial for some people to grab a copy and start spreading it elsewhere, presumably even before it hit the theaters. It could very well have an impact on revenue - if nothing else, I'd expect Sony will get sued over it by the other parties involved with some Hollywood-math level of missed revenue claims.

    6. Re:Maybe I'm cynical... by sexconker · · Score: 3

      You're not cynical, just observant.

      Sony did the exact same thing with the crappy movie "The Interview". Thy had a turd on their hands and they tossed it out into the open just to get some attention for it. Bonus - they used this to divert attention from the fact that their massive security breach was an inside job. Remember when the intelligence agencies were trying to blame North Korea for it and stir the pot for cyber warfare and other imagined bullshit? Absolutely no one credible in the security sector believes there is any evidence that NK was involved at all in the Sony hack. Oh, and remember when actual hackers dumped all the NSA tools on the net and we all learned that a key focus of their toolkits is making it look like attacks originated from Russia, China, NK, etc. so they could engineer false flag operations?

  5. Re: still Piracy and they can sue people who downl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope. The company distributed it themselves.

  6. "I don't understand why..." by rnturn · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...uploading this trailer is taking so long... I'm going out for a latte."

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  7. Trailers Today... by lys1123 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is exactly why I hate seeing trailers these days... they practically spoil the whole movie!