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Netflix vs Filmmakers Over Lost Movie Drive | Edmonton News
A $105 million lawsuit is brewing as a production company and filmmaker accuse Netflix of stealing the master copy of their Nicolas Cage WWII spy thriller Fortitude—a leak that could doom the film’s distribution. Simon Afram, who poured $45 million into the project, handed Netflix an unencrypted hard drive on June 15th, only for it to vanish from their L.A. offices a week later. Netflix claims the producers failed to use industry-standard security, like encrypted files or password-protected links, and says they immediately alerted security and offered piracy monitoring. But the team demands…
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