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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Your intuition is right: they're afraid of the content leaking. For cloud providers, this results in ... amusingly long do

by boulos 6y ago

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Your intuition is right: they're afraid of the content leaking. For cloud providers, this results in ... amusingly long documents. Here's GCP's at 110 pages [1], while the AWS folks were clever and used landscape mode for theirs [2] so that it's only 59 pages :). [1] https://cloud.google.com/files/gcp-mpaa-compliancemapping.pdf https://cloud.google.com/files/gcp-mpaa-compliancemapping.pd... [2] https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/compliance/AWS_Alignment_with_Motion_Picture_of_America_Association.pdf https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/compliance/AWS_Alignmen...

srtjstjsj 6y ago
Good to know that Spider-Man movies are better protected than my personal health information.
echelon 6y ago
That's fascinating! These companies protect their assets as if release were an existential risk. I suppose it would impact their bottom line to some extent. It'll be interesting to see in the future when content is cheap to produce. I predict a complete shift away from this.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > These companies protect their assets as if release were an existential risk. I guess you're not familiar with the MPAA. They're perenially headed by one of the US' top lawyers/lobbyists, at a salary of millions per year. They're the group behind the continual assault on the "analog hole", the promoters of "must use Silverlight for DRM", etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association
- boulos 6y ago
  You clearly wouldn’t see the movie if you’d seen some final frames that were emailed to you :). > It'll be interesting to see in the future when content is cheap to produce. I predict a complete shift away from this. It’s actually one of the most obvious forms of friction, causing an increase in the cost of doing business. A lot of VFX houses take these rules to imply that they must segment their networks and keep workstations completely unable to reach the internet (coming full circle to the airgapped comment at the start). Pretend that your entire development workflow is like being on a plane when the WiFi is down. That’s modern VFX software engineer life :(.

by boulos 6y ago

srtjstjsj 6y ago

Good to know that Spider-Man movies are better protected than my personal health information.

echelon 6y ago

That's fascinating! These companies protect their assets as if release were an existential risk. I suppose it would impact their bottom line to some extent. It'll be interesting to see in the future when content is cheap to produce. I predict a complete shift away from this.

redis_mlc 6y ago
> These companies protect their assets as if release were an existential risk. I guess you're not familiar with the MPAA. They're perenially headed by one of the US' top lawyers/lobbyists, at a salary of millions per year. They're the group behind the continual assault on the "analog hole", the promoters of "must use Silverlight for DRM", etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association
boulos 6y ago
You clearly wouldn’t see the movie if you’d seen some final frames that were emailed to you :). > It'll be interesting to see in the future when content is cheap to produce. I predict a complete shift away from this. It’s actually one of the most obvious forms of friction, causing an increase in the cost of doing business. A lot of VFX houses take these rules to imply that they must segment their networks and keep workstations completely unable to reach the internet (coming full circle to the airgapped comment at the start). Pretend that your entire development workflow is like being on a plane when the WiFi is down. That’s modern VFX software engineer life :(.