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so... they actually allow personel to make a copy for personal use from a not-jet released movie? And then they wonder how these things come up on various download sites?

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From the sounds of it, it sounded like a pretty high up person? If it were everyone allowed to why would they be so concerned about the one persons copy, wouldn't there be a lot of copies?

It's not Ebola, and these are all people who worked on Toy Story. John Carmack isn't going to leak Doom 4. I'm pretty sure he can be trusted with that one.

Why would you give away your life's work to some thieving bastard on the internet who you'd never met and didn't care about you, anyway?

Not John Carmack, but what about a junior dev? What about the QA people? How far down the chain do you go with who gets to take a copy home?

On a large operation you can't rule out the bitter ex-employee factor either.

If you were a junior programmer at id, would you torrent your work? I doubt it. Leaks nearly always come from outside the company, meaning copies sent to reviewers etc.

If you have a guy working for you who would leak something you're working on, the solution isn't to not allow people to take things home, it's to fire people who would harm your company.

Clearly they're talking about the CG source, not the rendered result.

Even even if it's un-rendered, we're still talking TBs of meshes, scenes, textures, mattes, etc. That part didn't make sense to me. Maybe it was in the storyboard phase.

Granted, this is pre-1999. Things have changed since then.

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