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No, the file size is in the terabytes (if not Petabytes) it has super heavy DRM (the cinemas have to pay upfront for a number of showings usually and when they are done the movie is locked) and the file type is a problem as well.
Lol.
That wasn't a joke
Over 500 Gigabyte for one movie. The size obviously depends on the length but also on the amount of visual stuff and sound things they might add. Also quality requested. 3D also increases the size heavily.
Right but 517 GB is ~0.05% of a petabyte. Nobody is saying 517 GB is small, but it’s a far cry from petabyte(s) of storage
A Petabyte would be a thousand movies. No cinema has a thousand movies on its program.
Depends strongly on the cinema, many have the movies around for relatively long and as said, the size varies heavily.
Yeah, that’s be a high bar for storage lmao
Yeah basically impossible to walk away with unnoticed, and internet usage for this amount of data would be very visible. The movies usually arrive in boxes by a special service that has vans like money transports...
Nope. SD cards can do terabytes now. Walking away with it is probably the easiest part of the whole heist plan.
Getting around the obscure hardware and software DRM schemes, moving that much data quick enough that you don't have to make two trips, getting the knowledge required to do all that... I figure those would probably be harder.
Have to agree here, you can buy a Samsung branded 4TB USB-C drive that fits in your wallet.
I doubt the copy the theater is receiving is any higher quality than a Blu-ray release though, so aside from George Lucas style editing there seems to be little value in transporting the encrypted copy unless you first have a decryption method.
The problem is that these Mashines don't have USB or SD slots, you would need to steal the entire thing to copy it on another Mashine. They take security seriously, especially the theaters that do the first showings of movies.