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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You think private companies actually care deeply about OpSec other than just shutting down legitimate criticism?

Security costs money and that's supposed to go in executives pockets don't you know. Wasting it on something like security means less pay for Reed Hastings! Fuck the security, executives must profit! /s

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You say poor opsec, I say free advertising.

Would anyone in this thread have paid ANY attention to this movie otherwise?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Especially considering the last Spongebob movie was an atrocious 3d animated abomination. Oh god, I sound like Squidward.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

At least somebody still does since all the VAs are getting so old they don't sound like themselves anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This one is also 3D animated

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

pls don't go see this - pirated or otherwise - because stephen hillenburg specifically said no spin offs before he died and paramount has been doing everything they can to spit on his legacy.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Pretty much as soon as he passed, they announced they were making a spinoff.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And even if someone doesn't care about that sentimental stuff, it's also most likely a terrible movie. Spongebob as a whole isn't worth watching once Hillenburg left after the first movie since he intended that to be the end of the series. Post-Hillenburg Spongebob is little better than YouTube kids videos made by content farms, sometimes no better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What season did he leave? Was it 3 or 4?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

He left after season three, the first movie was meant to be the end.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's surprising it doesn't happen more often.

They send out review copies to "journalists" months in advance, all it takes is one of them to have poor opsec.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

for this kind of release but bigger blockbuster I guess critics are invited to see it in private

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m guessing the copies they send to “journalists” have some sort of individualized watermark. Of course that would only fight leakers, not the “journalists” getting hacked

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There are two in the top corners at least

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lmao, yup. Prowlarr found one single release on TPB.

It does have those 'property of Netflix' watermarks and timestamps throughout though.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know why, but it's very sweet to see Jill Talley and Tom Kenny right next to each other in the cast list. Usually they're separated since Jill only does minor characters and Tom is the titular Spongebob.

They got married after meeting each other as cast members of HBO's Mr. Show. Always nice to see them actually paired up.

EDIT: Also the leaked movie is practically Standard Definition and damn Tom and Mr. Lawrence are getting so old they're struggling to do the voices as clear as they used to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Imagine wearing goggle to look into the future, that's sunlit the HUD

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unrelated to the opsec, why is a SpongeBob Movie premiering on Netflix? Isn't Nickelodeon Paramount?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Netflix and nickelodeon has a partnership and must give netflix so many new things each year.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Excuse my ignorance, but what am I looking at?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks like someone posted a leaked internal copy for everyone to stream months before the release date?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Ok that makes sense, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would not use months here, since it is only little more than a month until official release

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I found discussions of this leak from August 2024. This is just bringing attention to it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ahh, I see, lol

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

I love the casualness of this

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

‘Are we supposed to take out Spiderman and Spongebob?’ Iranian cleric mocks US and says Tehran can’t strike back at targets of Soleimani’s stature because America only has fictional heroes

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Real people are far more likely to disappoint.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Whoever runs the Oscars or whatever also doesn't seem to have good opsec; whenever those are about to happen is one of the best times to get quality pirated films of movies still in the theatre or even as of yet to be released to the public in a digital format meant to show the film to critics/judges.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

you mean they got the date wrong on a release? that's not a security issue

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The video’s watermarks clearly indicate that it’s a leak.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Was this comment not clearly sarcasm?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

The image appears to be of a leak of the movie.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It means that pirates don't have to wait for release dates, because Netflix didn't secure their servers.

But it's a good thing that Netflix serves DRM to my devices through my paid account. We wouldn't want me watching it later without paying them again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It is performative, they want the normie follow the rules. They know they can't control people who are actually interested in freedom.

If they could, they would unleash full force of the state force but they can't... For now