In a 7.14 posting, GQ‘s Lauren Bans has written about having asked Apple tech support if it’s possible to shoot a private sex tape on your iPad and then have it accidentally upload into the Cloud with many, many people suddenly able to watch it. Apple’s answer: “Impossible.” The sex-tape creator “would have to make special settings for anyone to be able to see the sex tape [on some kind of] shared stream.”

The premise of Jake Kasdan‘s Sex Tape (Columbia, 7.18), which I’m seeing tonight at an all-media in Century City, is that an accidentally shared sex tape is a distinct possibility. I had always presumed this was a bogus concept, but it’s nice to hear that Apple tech support agrees. 10 pm Update: I’ve just come back from the screening, and I can at least say that Kasdan lays the blame for the accidental uploading on a synching software that Segel’s character has created called “Franken-synch.”

Here’s a portion of the GQ transcript:

Bans: “So I filmed a video I don’t want anyone to see ever. Like, you know the kind of video I’m talking about?”

Apple tech support: “Okay.”

Bans: “I’m talking about a sex video, Dave.”

Apple tech support: “Oh, I see.”

Bans: “Can that go up into the Cloud without me knowing it?”

Apple tech support [after a little bit of blah-blah and a delay of 2 minutes and 13 seconds]: “All right, so I went ahead and looked into it for you, and you would have to make special settings for anyone to be able to see that…like a shared stream.”

Bans: “So videos can’t just go into the Cloud?”

Apple tech support: “Videos can be backed up to iCloud, but what that means is the video would be saved as, like, a backup. But you wouldn’t be able to share it with anyone. No one can go into the iCloud and watch the video.”

Bans: “Okay. So let’s say I made my sex video, and somehow it got into the Cloud, and then I gave iPads as gifts to a hundred of my friends and family. What are the chances they would ever get that sex video on their iPads?”

Apple tech support: “Impossible. They can’t connect to your iPad over, like, a network and just get info. You would be the one who has control.”