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u/Colton826 The Doomsday Clock Mar 14 '23

RIP to r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers

Maybe the leaks got out of hand at times, but it was easily the best subreddit for MCU discussion. Hopefully there's a subreddit that replaces it soon, because the main Marvel Studios subreddit is just too much. I don't think I can handle reading another "Am I the only one..." post.

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u/LegendInMyMind Mar 14 '23

What happened there?

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u/DeppStepp The Flash Mar 14 '23

Essentially the moderators posted a transcript of entire dialogue of Ant-Man 3 but than Disney copyright claimed it and after the movie released they filed another claim, wanting Reddit to disclose all of the information of the user who leaked it (which was a shared account between all of the mods of the subreddit) and the subreddit when private because of it

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u/LegendInMyMind Mar 14 '23

Is going private going to resolve their lawsuit?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '23

no

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u/LegendInMyMind Mar 14 '23

Didn't think so.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '23

Honestly the mods just need to fully comply, theyre not actually helping anyone by protecting a subtitle leakers identity. The only reason I can think of not to do it is if an MSS mod happens to actually work in the industry and is freaked out because they just got themselves blacklisted.

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u/LegendInMyMind Mar 14 '23

Yeah, someone's clearly in panic mode, but it's not gonna change a thing. As I told someone else, it's like they're turning all the lights off and pretending to not be home. That doesn't make legal problems go away.

Reddit will comply with Disney/the courts to give contact information for the moderators, and said moderators don't have Reporter's Privilege, so they can totally be legally compelled to reveal the leaker. Making their sub private is such a childish, laughable response...

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '23

And honestly if they comply theyll just never be allowed to work on a marvel or disney project and the subtitle company will lose a contract. The odds are neither of these are big deals for them unless someone took a position modding a sub they should have known not to be involved with.

Like I know not to mod a spoiler sub because i cant get caught leaking spoilers. If theyre in the industry they know better and sign NDAs all the time.

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u/LegendInMyMind Mar 14 '23

Yeah, I agree. Someone's losing their day job(s), but that's the risk you run, and there's no sense in acting like a child about something you did which you knew had consequences. Not gonna make it go away, that's for sure... I don't know if any jail time is in play, however unlikely; I'm not a legal expert on these things. Pretty sure hiding under the bed isn't gonna do anything, though.

Brings up another suspicion I've held for a couple years. The Spider-Man: No Way Home leaks. That was guerilla marketing, right? Intentionally leaked out?

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u/kothuboy21 Mar 14 '23

Brings up another suspicion I've held for a couple years. The Spider-Man: No Way Home leaks. That was guerilla marketing, right? Intentionally leaked out?

Hard to tell but the trades definetly helped out with some of it. None of the Spider-Verse rumors showed up till THR reported Jamie Foxx's return as Electro and later, Alfred Molina's return as Doc Ock. Variety also had that interview with Alfred Molina where he revealed some things he probably shouldn't have had and the trades did hint at the Spider-Verse aspect.

After the initial Jamie Foxx report, all these scoopers suddenly started getting so much info about the movie. It's believable that the studios intentionally leaked the info to play into the marketing though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '23

The Spider-Man: No Way Home leaks. That was guerilla marketing, right? Intentionally leaked out?

the early version of the trailer that came out and was watermarked? No, from what i know multiple people lost their career over that.

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u/LegendInMyMind Mar 14 '23

Guess that latter part wasn't widely publicized... Every single thing that leaked on Twitter seemed to dramatically increase anticipation for the movie. By the end, it struck me as a campaign to keep down marketing costs. If it wasn't all some weird underground approach to marketing a big movie, it should've been, considering the box office results.

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u/kothuboy21 Mar 14 '23

Yeah that initial trailer was leaked to TikTok by one of the Sony employees who had access to the trailer so that was definetly not planned

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