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The supposed "Pirates hack" was only ever a hoax, according to Disney chief exec Bob Iger. Earlier this month the Disney's boss said that hackers were threatening one of its movies unless it paid a ransom. This film was widely assumed to be Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Hackers had supposedly obtained the …

  1. Aladdin Sane

    Yahoo Finance?

    What sort of Mickey Mouse organisation talks to them?

    1. Voland's right hand Silver badge

      Re: Yahoo Finance?

      Most. It is till this day one of the best free aggregators out there.

      It is run separately from a lot of yahoo including its own software dev team and is the only thing in Yahoo which is worth some money.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Yahoo Finance?

      "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales"

      Is already pirated on TPB!

  2. The March Hare
    Joke

    Hump? what hump?

    I misread Bob Iger's name as Igor and had a Young Frankenstein flashback!

    Frau Blücher!

    heh heh :)

  3. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

    Ransom threat

    What about the kickstarter campaign to raise enough ransom money to keep the movie locked up?

  4. Your alien overlord - fear me

    All publicity is good publicity. Especially when flogging a dead horse!!!

    1. Aladdin Sane

      I thought the film was about flogging the oggin?

      1. TRT Silver badge

        Friggin' in the riggin'.

  5. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    But is the film any good?

    as it wasn't launched in London but in Paris and none of the cast would come to London, (according to Mark Kermode on Radio 5 a couple of hours ago) I get the feeling that it is a bit of a lemon.

    A case of too many sequels with a diminishing rate of returns perhaps?

    1. Aladdin Sane

      Re: But is the film any good?

      The franchise started to fail when they put Jack Sparrow front and centre.

  6. GreggS

    What's the world coming to?

    Chancers saying they're hackers. When i were a lad....

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    So if I watch a pirated pirate film am I a pirate?

    Then what if a pirate watches a pirated pirate film? Does that make them a pirating pirate or a pirates pirate?

    The only thing I can be sure of is why pirates are called pirates and that's because they are.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      I see your point, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter, post haste. This also begs the question, no, it begs, it begs:

      How many pirate movies can a pirate movie pirate pirate if a pirate movie pirate could pirate pirate movies?

      Also, what ever happened to Baby Jane?

      Also, DON'T CALL ME Señor, I'm NOT a Spanish person!

      And many, many more!

    2. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

      "Then what if a pirate watches a pirated pirate film?"

      Metapirate?

    3. Pirate Dave Silver badge
      Pirate

      "So if I watch a pirated pirate film am I a pirate?"

      Welcome, lad. Stick to the code, and Cap'n gets first dibs.

      1. TRT Silver badge

        It's like binary. Every subsequent pirating doubloons the last.

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      .... The only thing I can be sure of is why pirates are called pirates and that's because they arrrrrrrrrr.

      There, FTFY.

    5. Ken Moorhouse Silver badge

      You know when pirating and corruption have gone too far when...

      ...the parrot on your shoulder starts squawking "Pieces of Seven. Pieces of Seven."

      (That's a Parroty Error, for anyone who hasn't heard that one before).

    6. Tim Seventh

      "The only thing I can be sure of is why pirates are called pirates and that's because they Arr!"

      1. TRT Silver badge

        Apple - £5. Apricot - £7.50. Raspberry - £6. Blackberry - £4. Lemon Meringue - £6.50.

        Pie rates.

        1. ahjgta

          .. and its getting higher!

          Bartlett - $1.49 / lb

          Anjou - $ .99 / lb

          Bosc - $1.19 / lb

          Pear - rates

          (thumbs up and flattery for the pi-rates)

          1. TRT Silver badge

            Re: .. and its getting higher!

            Breadfruit $11.00, Papaya $10, Jerk Chicken $9, Corn $8, Sweet Potato Whoopie $2 each.

            Pie rates of the Caribbean.

        2. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          "Apple - £5. Apricot - £7.50. Raspberry - £6. Blackberry - £4. Lemon Meringue - £6.50.

          Pie rates."

          But when at sea, the pie rates are all capped at £3.14.

          1. TRT Silver badge

            Twenty-two ships over the seven seas.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I smell a bullshit story by Disney to hype the movie.

  9. EL Vark

    Whoopsie Daisy

    And three cheers to the lads at TorrentFreak for doing the leg, ground, and gruntwork to expose this turd and the turd(s) behind it. Iger, man, wotta piece of work this guy is.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    this was a hoax advertising

    and it worked. I saw it mentioned in bbc, and some foreign media. There's nothing better than FREE advertising! That said, I won't be spending a penny on this piece of (...)

  11. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
  12. Stuart Halliday

    Can someone tell us his ISP? His download speed must be incredible!

  13. Sgt_Oddball
    Terminator

    pirates of the Caribbean 47.

    'Johnny Depp stars as a robot pirate and looses his wife in a game of poker and tries to win her back with hilarious consequences....'

    - future of the left / Robocop 4: F*** off Robocop.

    That song sounds more and more prophetic everytime I hear it...

  14. chivo243 Silver badge
    Devil

    Just like

    every no talent under 30 celebrity trying to keep their name in the spotlight.

    Do something incredibly illegal, stupid or immoral - Get Free Publicity! Get a slot on a talk show that pays you to be there and give an incredibly emotional apology and blame drugs, alcohol and your ex GF\BF. Swear to turn over a new clean and sober leaf.

    JackPot! You can't buy that kind of publicity!

    1. itzman

      Re: Just like

      You can't buy that kind of publicity!

      #except by abandoning every shred of dignity and self respect.

  15. ElReg!comments!Pierre
    Coat

    THEY! GOT! JAVIER! BARDEM!

    Let's hope he won't follow suit to formerly great actors, such as Johnny Depp or (even more sadly) Heath Ledger. Wait, did I get "hack" wrong?

  16. JustNiz

    or far more likely: it was real and the FBI/CIA have now caught the hackers, and Disney want to not look like a bunch of chumps and to discourage future copycat hackers.

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Best watched with a large glass or bottle of rum

    I saw the film on Thursday and although I fell asleep through some bits (the rum?) I generally enjoyed it, bits of dialogue were stilted, slow parts, but all the excellent CGI. It was a pity that Knightley and Bloom were but cameos.

    My score 6/10

    I noticed that it was already availlable on the usual places the same day as release.

  18. Phukov Andigh Bronze badge

    second time this has "worked"?

    would anyone have even paid the slightest attention to "The Interview" without the Sony hack drama?

    Frankly a better PR move for Repetitive Pirate Movie would've been focus on ZOMBIE SHARKS

    but they were worried SciFi would take it and run with it.

    Undead Sharknado!

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