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posted by martyb on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the pay-up-or-else dept.

DataBreaches.net notes:

"On December 26, in an encrypted chat, TheDarkOverlord (TDO) informed DataBreaches.net that they had recently come across what they described as hundreds of GBs of unreleased and non-public media from a studio located in Hollywood...TDO would not reveal the attack method nor how much the ransom demand was, but DataBreaches.net was able to obtain a copy of a contract both TDO and a representative of Larson allegedly signed. The contract, signed December 27, indicated that the studio would pay TDO 50 BTC by January 31. TDO signed the contract as "Adolf Hitler." The signature of the company representative was indecipherable, but TDO claimed that it was the CFO of the firm who signed. "

https://www.databreaches.net/thedarkoverlord-leaks-upcoming-episode-of-orange-is-the-new-black-after-netflix-doesnt-pay-extortion-demand/

According to http://www.coindesk.com/price/ 50 BTC is US $65,984.32

This article contains more of the contract content: https://noise.getoto.net/tag/thedarkoverlord/ as well as links to the pastebin (removed) https://web.archive.org/web/20170428224235/https://pastebin.com/FKZAafQd.

And covered by TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/hackers-leak-netflixs-orange-is-the-new-black-season-5-premiere-170429/


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by looorg on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:50PM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:50PM (#501927)

    Since OITNB is watch on demand and it's all released at once so why would they cave to blackmail? Just release it then instead. Sure it's not like 50 BTC is a lot of money compared to what the season or even a single episode cost to make.

    But for someone not in showbiz it does seem a bit odd that this would have been complete in december last year and just sitting on a shelf (or hanging out on some connected internet enabled unsecure storage solution of their choice) until the 9th of June when it was/is officially going to release. Are they saving it for six+ months just for it to line up with some kind PR-stunt or press event? Is this the finished product or some kind of post-production copy? I don't think I wanna touch those torrents or files with a 100 foot pole.

    Also the show isn't that great or I'm not that desperate to see it right now that I would bother -- June is fine with me.

    The part about printed contracts signed by Hitler etc just seem beyond stupid.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:49PM (#501965)

    The part about printed contracts signed by Hitler etc just seem beyond stupid.

    Depends who the contract enforcer is. Isn't this so much better than a violently imposed monopoly? /s

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @11:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @11:47PM (#502554)

    it does seem a bit odd that this would have been complete in december last year and just sitting on a shelf (or hanging out on some connected internet enabled unsecure storage solution of their choice) until the 9th of June when it was/is officially going to release.

    It's not the finished product, it's a workprint, there's timecodes in the corner throughout all episodes, some episodes feature "property of ..." labels throughout, and there is/was still some small amount of ADR work (the compromised party was the company doing ADR) still needing to be done, and at least one smartphone screen shows a note about what's supposed to put onto the screen later with effects. Watchable but nowhere near retail quality.