Well, the company that signs an NDA has a duty to protect something once it's in their possession. If it was on an encrypted drive and someone was to do something that fucking dumb, they would certainly have made a case for negligence against themselves.

The producers of this film may as well have put it on some shitbox web server and emailed a link for all the security they chose.

It's just not that hard.

Straw man. Let me help you:

1. try to stay on topic instead of flailing about like a fucking idiot.
2. before you knock down something I never said, first show that I said it.
3. I'm glad you're so upset by something I've posted in the past that you feel the need to still be butthurt about it. I love knowing I've influenced you, and have a free spacious room inside your head any time I need it.

Yes, because marketing chuds have never employed hyperbole before to astound and amaze, in order to make a sale.

Not even once.

Which is why Tesla's autopilot started with highways first. It was a very useful de-scope of rules in order to build a minimum-viable thing, and then build upon that thing.

Why not, SCOTUS is already making it up as they go along and ignoring 50+ years of SCOTUS precedent.

Seems like that's what we do now.

Or just used an Ironkey, and sent them a password / combo separately as you say.

They don't even need to be technical folk - there are retail products available for at least 15 years that solve this exact problem.

1. producer was an idiot and sent them a copy of their unreleased product on an unencrypted drive.
2. someone boosted the drive from Netflix's offices, along with many other drives
3. producer gets mad that Netflix lost it, while taking no accountability themselves for spending an extra $100 for a hardware encrypted drive that requires a password or combination to decrypt and mount

Seriously, this is negligence on the part of the dumbass producer that did not bother with reasonable protections for their own work product, and now they are trying to blame Netflix.

Fuck this guy.

Other than it being a pre-released copyrighted work that they don't want rampantly pirated before they have even sold the rights. Yeah, no reason to encrypt your $45M property to prevent unauthorized release.

Are you totally daft?

BUY AN ENCRYPTED DRIVE IF IT'S SO HARD.

Encrypted USB drives exist, and have for a long damn time. It uses a password to unlock.

There's no excuse here. They needed to buy a different device and not be complete chuds.

Exactly.

If you think you have something worth $45M on a fucking USB drive, how about making sure that USB drive is worthless if it ends up in the wrong hands?

These morons caused their own problem by not protecting themselves with ubiquitously available means that are not novel in any way. There are hardware encrypted devices out there specifically for this kind of thing. Like, you know, this thing.

This lawsuit should be thrown out for negligence on the part of the plaintiff.

It won't even take a few months. Fund managers will be looking at this and hitting the sell button tomorrow to capture the alpha and move on.

Expect it to be down a double-digit percent tomorrow.

That would be perfectly fine.

It's not a public flogging, instead it's someone agreeing (i.e. consent) and it's not bad performance based where there are rules about how to deal with underperformance, and pies to the face isn't part of that rule set.

Literally nobody would have a problem with what you suggest.

Found the guy who has never heard the term "whistleblower"

My lord you are a singularity of stupid, sucking in any and all others around you that get too close.

So you want legally sanctioned workplace law violations.

I repeat: go fuck yourself.

I'm so tired of your constant justification and equivocation that just doesn't pass the basic sniff test of reality.

What if the employee had past trauma about being tied up? Don't you think this might trigger that? Instant lawsuit.

What if the employee has a dairy allergy, and smashing whipped cream up their nose triggers anaphylaxis? Instant lawsuit.

What if the employee suffers lacerations in their eyes from sharp pie crust fragments? Instant lawsuit.

What if the regional manager learns of this? Store manager instantly fired, and who knows what HR would require to legally cover the corporation.

This.
Is.
In.
Every.
Fucking.
Way.
Shamelessly.
Idiotic.

And so are you for your rationalization of it. Grow the fuck up.