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

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

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  2. 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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  3. 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 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.

  4. "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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