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rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Freiberg" title="Björn Freiberg">Björn Freiberg</a></li> <li>Seumas F. Sargent</li> <li>Leonard Scheicher</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">Germany</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original language</th><td class="infobox-data">German</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> of episodes</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary">Production</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Running time</th><td class="infobox-data">58–77 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Production companies</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Kundschafter Filmproduktion</li> <li>Sunny Side Up Films</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary">Original release</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Network</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data">October 7, 2021<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2021-10-07</span>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>The Billion Dollar Code</b> is a 2021 <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> television miniseries starring <a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Freiberg" title="Björn Freiberg">Björn Freiberg</a>, Seumas F. Sargent and Leonard Scheicher.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Based on true events, the series was developed for Netflix, where it was first aired in October 2021 along with an additional <a href="/wiki/Feature_story" title="Feature story">feature story</a> episode. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Billion_Dollar_Code&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The plot follows two interconnected timelines. In <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> of the 1990s, a group of young <a href="/wiki/Hacker" title="Hacker">hackers</a> and art students had founded the <a href="/w/index.php?title=ART%2BCOM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ART+COM (page does not exist)">ART+COM</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ART%2BCOM" class="extiw" title="de:ART+COM">de</a>]</span> collaboration to play at the cutting edge of <a href="/wiki/Computer_programming" title="Computer programming">computer programming</a> and <a href="/wiki/Digital_art" title="Digital art">digital art</a>. They had developed a planet browser in 1991 which was used by <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Sauter" title="Joachim Sauter">Joachim Sauter</a> to get funding from <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom" title="Deutsche Telekom">Deutsche Telekom</a> in 1993 to start the successful development of <a href="/wiki/Terravision_(computer_program)" title="Terravision (computer program)">TerraVision</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TerraVisionProject_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TerraVisionProject-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the series, the ART+COM beginnings were dropped, while several of the real persons and stakeholders were fused to a smaller cast, with the fictional Carsten Schlüter as the main artist and Juri Müller as the main programmer. </p><p>The other storyline revolves around the 2014 <a href="/wiki/Patent_infringement" title="Patent infringement">patent infringement</a> dispute against <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a>, alleging that TerraVision was used to develop <a href="/wiki/Google_Earth" title="Google Earth">Google Earth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dw_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fictional character Brian Anderson is based on <a href="/wiki/Brian_McClendon" title="Brian McClendon">Brian McClendon</a> and Michael T Jones who did found <a href="/wiki/Google_Earth#History" title="Google Earth">Keyhole Inc</a> to develop a planet browser.<sup id="cite_ref-case1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-case1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That company was bought by Google in 2004. The movie dramatized facets of the real lawsuit that lasted until 2017, with the script reproducing only parts of the actual court statements to avoid coming into conflict with Google<sup id="cite_ref-dw_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and having key parts of the proceedings <a href="#Discrepancies">fictionalized or omitted.</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trivia">Trivia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Billion_Dollar_Code&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Trivia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The names of the main characters were changed for dramatic purposes and multiple involved people were merged into two, among them <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Sauter" title="Joachim Sauter">Joachim Sauter</a>, Pavel Mayer, Axel Schmidt and Gerd Grüneis.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The featurette shows the actual persons involved in the TerraVision project, except for Professor Joachim Sauter who died in July 2021.</li> <li>One of the co-founders of Keyhole has published a first-hand account claiming to debunk the origins, timelines and interpretations depicted in the fictionalized miniseries.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discrepancies">Discrepancies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Billion_Dollar_Code&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Discrepancies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The miniseries dramatizes the lawsuit, the proceedings of which lasted until 2017. Art+Com lost at trial<sup id="cite_ref-docket_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-docket-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The filmmakers used portions of the trial transcript to avoid coming into conflict with Google,<sup id="cite_ref-dw_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but key aspects of the trial were entirely fictionalized or omitted.<sup id="cite_ref-docket_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-docket-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The actual decision of the court was in fact based on other findings. </p> <ul><li>In the Netflix series, the character Brian Anderson is asked his opinion under oath about the Terravision software and says, “To be honest, it was fantastic then and fantastic now.” When Michael T. Jones testified, he did say “It was fantastic then and it is fantastic now”, but he was talking about the ball interface, a 3D mouse. He went on to say: “And I liked the ball a lot, actually. But as far as the actual computer part, I was not particularly impressed with that part.”<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the Netflix series, the character Brian Anderson is portrayed as having lied under oath in response to the question “Did you tell Mr. Müller that Google Earth never would have been possible without Terravision?” In reality, Michael T. Jones was never asked this question.<sup id="cite_ref-docket_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-docket-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Michael T. Jones died in January 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Netflix series depicts the invalidation of Art+Com's patent at trial, but does not portray the testimony of Stephen Lau, a former employee of the federally-funded, not-for-profit <a href="/wiki/SRI_International" title="SRI International">Stanford Research Institute ("SRI")</a>, whose testimony is principally responsible for the patent's invalidation. He testified that he developed an earth visualization application for SRI called TerraVision, and that he shared and discussed SRI TerraVision's code with Art+Com. Both SRI and Art+Com systems used a multi-resolution pyramid of imagery to let users zoom from high to low altitudes, and both were called Terravision. Art+Com agreed to rename their product because SRI's came first. Because Art+Com did not include reference to SRI's TerraVision as "prior art" in its patent application, Art+Com's patent was declared invalid.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stephen Lau died from COVID-19 in March 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Billion_Dollar_Code&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Freiberg" title="Björn Freiberg">Björn Freiberg</a> as Interpreter</li> <li>Seumas F. Sargent as Eric Spears</li> <li>Leonard Scheicher as Carsten Schlüter (younger)</li> <li>Lukas Loughran as Brian Anderson</li> <li>Marius Ahrendt as Juri Müller (younger)</li> <li>Dan Cade as Matt Boyd</li> <li>Thomas Douglas as Ralph</li> <li>Michelle Glick as Janet Martinez</li> <li>Yuki Iwamoto as Buchou</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mi%C5%A1el_Mati%C4%8Devi%C4%87" title="Mišel Matičević">Mišel Matičević</a> as Juri Müller (older)</li> <li>Clayton Nemrow as Warren Stuart</li> <li>Harry Szovik as Barman</li> <li>Christoph Tomanek as Manfred Kurt</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Waschke" title="Mark Waschke">Mark Waschke</a> as Carsten Schlüter (older)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavinia_Wilson" title="Lavinia Wilson">Lavinia Wilson</a> as Lea Hauswirth</li> <li>Scott Alexander Young as Partner</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Episodes">Episodes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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style="text-align:center">Oliver Ziegenbalg</td><td style="text-align:center">October 7, 2021<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2021-10-07</span>)</span></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep2" style="text-align:center">2</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"Episode 2"</td><td style="text-align:center">Robert Thalheim</td><td style="text-align:center">Oliver Ziegenbalg</td><td style="text-align:center">October 7, 2021<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2021-10-07</span>)</span></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep3" style="text-align:center">3</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"Episode 3"</td><td style="text-align:center">Robert Thalheim</td><td style="text-align:center">Oliver Ziegenbalg</td><td style="text-align:center">October 7, 2021<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2021-10-07</span>)</span></td></tr> <tr class="vevent module-episode-list-row" style="text-align:center;background:inherit;color:inherit"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" id="ep4" style="text-align:center">4</th><td class="summary" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left">"Episode 4"</td><td style="text-align:center">Robert Thalheim</td><td style="text-align:center">Oliver Ziegenbalg</td><td style="text-align:center">October 7, 2021<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2021-10-07</span>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237879425">.mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable tr.vevent,.mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable tr.vevent th{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .wikiepisodetable .summary{text-align:left}@media 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