A copy of the Hollywood movie disappeared from Netflix’s office desk, the compensation claim is about 100 million

This is the question film producer Simon Afram now demands an answer from Netflix. According to Reuters Afram and his company Op-Fortitude are demanding damages of 105 million dollars, or about 91 million euros, from the streaming giants.

Fortitude is a World War II spy thriller about the Allied deception operation Operation Fortitude. It was used to mislead Nazi Germany before the Normandy landings. Nicolas Cage plays a Serbian double agent in the film. The film also stars Ben Kingsley, Matthew Goode and Michael Sheen.

According to Reuters, Afram says that he spent seven years making the film and invested more than 45 million dollars in its production. According to the lawsuit, the loss of the viewing copy can collapse the distribution value of the film, even though there is no public information about its leaking online.

According to The Independent, Netflix became interested in acquiring the film after seeing promotional material about it. The company later asked the authors for a viewing copy for internal evaluation. A representative of the film’s creators personally delivered the hard disk containing the viewing copy to Netflix’s Los Angeles office, the paper says.

According to Gulf News, the creators claim to have informed Netflix that the copy on the disk was unencrypted. At the same time, they asked to delete the files after viewing and to inform when the disc would be available for download.

This obviously did not happen.

According to the authors, about a week and a half later, an employee in charge of film acquisitions at Netflix reported by email that “a good number of discs had been stolen from the company’s office desks during the same week”.

The According to the Independent, the employee also said that Netflix’s Security Team had investigated the issue without success and the company’s piracy team was on alert in case of a possible leak.

According to Afram, the damage is enormous, even if the film has not yet leaked online. According to the suit, the value of Fortitude is essentially based on the fact that it is an unreleased film that is being offered to the market for the first time. According to the producers, the disappearance could ruin the distribution negotiations, make it difficult to insure the film,suspending marketing plans and jeopardizing the award campaign.

Netflix denies responsibility for the loss of the viewing copy.

According to the company, Fortitude was delivered to it without the usual security measures in the industry. The company emphasizes that it does not own the rights to the film, but says that it takes content security seriously. According to Netflix, it has offered to monitor pirate sites for possible unauthorized distribution.

Netflix, on the other hand, describes the activities of Afram’s legal team as a hostile financing company. According to the company, the authors’ representatives initially demanded $165 million instead of cooperating to resolve the matter.