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Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by nhebb »

atmosx wrote: post #7
anonymouz wrote: post #5

The network scanner NMAP has appeared in a lot of movies before. Fyodor has a page on it: http://nmap.org/movies/ . Apparently it even made an appearance in a soft-porn movie...

Actually, do we have a list of good computer movies ? I liked the movie hackers when I was a kid and first came out with Jolie and everything but it's kinda ridiculous and the approach is very hollywood-esque. I found Sneakers to be a great movie. War Games was kinda old to get me involved when I first saw it. Tr0n is unwatchable (at least the latest version). I like the matrix (imho best karate one-on-one fighting s…

Dot (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371647/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3) is a satire of the dot com boom. Even though it's a comedy, it's by far my favorite movie that has anything remotely to do with tech.

Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by fdej »

hippich wrote: post #14

Does including GPL code in your project (movie) makes this project (movie) GPL too and requires release of all movie source code? (i.e. 3d models, scenes, screenplay, etc.) And if yes, if someone will rebuild whole movie, will it be possible to download binary version of it compiled by some Joe for free?

Regardless of the GPL, I think this qualifies as fair use by any reasonable interpretation. By the I'll-take-down-your-youtube-video-because-my-copyrighted-music-is-playing-on-the-radio-in-the-background or every-unauthorized-song-download-is-a-loss-of-$150,000 interpretation, I think the author should sue for seven or eight figures.

Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by xentronium »

atmosx wrote: post #7
anonymouz wrote: post #5

The network scanner NMAP has appeared in a lot of movies before. Fyodor has a page on it: http://nmap.org/movies/ . Apparently it even made an appearance in a soft-porn movie...

Actually, do we have a list of good computer movies ? I liked the movie hackers when I was a kid and first came out with Jolie and everything but it's kinda ridiculous and the approach is very hollywood-esque. I found Sneakers to be a great movie. War Games was kinda old to get me involved when I first saw it. Tr0n is unwatchable (at least the latest version). I like the matrix (imho best karate one-on-one fighting s…

So far I remember only one movie that shows "hacking" plausibly: Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [1].

Most of the time in other hollywood films, it's downright bogus. [2]

[1] http://oracle-wtf.blogspot.ru/2012/05/girl-with-ansi-tattoo....

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApTVqeGJMw Hacking scene from Skyfall, ugh.

Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by openbr »

NAFV_P wrote: post #3

Can anyone else think of another movie which shows C code in it?

http://openbiometrics.org/revolution.html

The OpenBR source code was shown in Revolution S01E18 and S01E20. Pretty neat actually that they went to the trouble to get real code for the biometrics app they were showing.

Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by frik »

xentronium wrote: post #24
atmosx wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, do we have a list of good computer movies ? I liked the movie hackers when I was a kid and first came out with Jolie and everything but it's kinda ridiculous and the approach is very hollywood-esque. I found Sneakers to be a great movie. War Games was kinda old to get me involved when I first saw it. Tr0n is unwatchable (at least the latest version). I like the matrix (imho best karate one-on-one fighting s…

So far I remember only one movie that shows "hacking" plausibly: Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [1]. Most of the time in other hollywood films, it's downright bogus. [2] [1] http://oracle-wtf.blogspot.ru/2012/05/girl-with-ansi-tattoo.... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApTVqeGJMw Hacking scene from Skyfall, ugh.

Finsher's "The Social Network" shows some real Perl code too. In several scenes with monitor closeups - downloading images via Perl calling wget from Harward dorm websites.

hacking scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odOzMz-fOOw

Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by jmccree »

atmosx wrote: post #7
anonymouz wrote: post #5

The network scanner NMAP has appeared in a lot of movies before. Fyodor has a page on it: http://nmap.org/movies/ . Apparently it even made an appearance in a soft-porn movie...

Actually, do we have a list of good computer movies ? I liked the movie hackers when I was a kid and first came out with Jolie and everything but it's kinda ridiculous and the approach is very hollywood-esque. I found Sneakers to be a great movie. War Games was kinda old to get me involved when I first saw it. Tr0n is unwatchable (at least the latest version). I like the matrix (imho best karate one-on-one fighting s…

Jurassic Park. If for nothing else than the 3D file browser being an actual SGI file system visualizer, rather than some hollywood 3D UI.

Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by jordigh »

mchaver wrote: post #17
hippich wrote: post #14

Does including GPL code in your project (movie) makes this project (movie) GPL too and requires release of all movie source code? (i.e. 3d models, scenes, screenplay, etc.) And if yes, if someone will rebuild whole movie, will it be possible to download binary version of it compiled by some Joe for free?

Assuming that the GPL is fully representative of Stallman's views, they would not be be required to release 3d models, scenes, or the screenplay. Those parts would not be considered software. However, I am not sure about the source code involved in the movie. He makes a distinction between art and software because software is meant to do "practical jobs" whereas art is not so he does not put the free requirement on t…

> Assuming that the GPL is fully representative of Stallman's views,

What does Stallman or his views have to do with it? The GPL is a document that is interpreted by judges and juries, not by Stallman.

The text of the GPL itself makes no distinction between software or other things that can be copyrighted. GPLv3 even changes its language to make it clearer that it can be applied to non-software things. For example, it defines "source code" as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". What this actually means is up to the aforementioned judges and juries, but for a movie, it's conceivable that the preferred source for modification is indeed the 3d models, the original reels, and so forth.

Re: My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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Post by jordigh »

> The only thing I felt a bit dissapointed about was to see a couple of open source projects use snippets of my code without any form of acknowledgement.

Does the original code have a free license? It seems like it doesn't, so these free projects taking the code could be violating the original copyright.

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