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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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SOLVED: it’s Antitrust! Thanks everyone!

It’s a tech related movie came out probably early 2000s.

Bits I remember:

A group of home brew coders watches a webinar of some large software company.
One of them gets hired by the company to work on a large project
The project is supposed to enable content delivery/streaming while overcoming bandwidth constraints, but they’re stuck in development
Main character is working on the project and is making headway but discovers something nefarious might be going on in the company
He checks around the place and realises a large mouse sculpture in the company campus playground is actually a hidden satellite
Using a computer in the children’s daycare room he uncovers the conspiracy
He manages to finish off the project, and the company thinks everything is fine
The tech company tests the system and it works perfectly broadcasting everywhere.
But the guy uses this test to present a montage of all the evidence of the conspiracy. Also uploads the project source code
Company CEO gets arrested or something, everyone lives happily ever after.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

That is definitely "Antitrust" with Tim Robbins and Ryan Phillippe.