Sony publishes an entire movie on YouTube instead of the trailer

Thousands of people watched a film posted entirely on YouTube by its American distributor before the apparent error was addressed.

Sony Pictures Entertainment described the trailer video for the movie Khali the Killer

. But its 90-minute duration served as a gift to the fact that the download contained more than just highlights of the film.

The video was erased after being online for more than six hours, but not until its availability was released

.com – which appears to have been the first news site to report the discovery – He described it as an "epic mistake".

Members of the public also mocked the find through social media.

Sony did not respond

The low-budget movie – which talks about a Los Angeles-based hitman – had previously attracted little attention, although it was not a big deal. it has already been broadcast in some parts of Europe and that it plays in film festivals.

This led some members It was a discussion of Reddit to ask if the "accident" was actually a publicity stunt.

"It takes a lot longer to download a feature film than a trailer, presumably someone would have wondered why it took so long," wrote one.

But this is not the first time that Sony has made such a mistake.

In 2014, the company released a much higher profile film – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – on its YouTube account in South Korea

In any case, the director of Khali the Killer shed light on the last debacle, on his own social media feeds.