Piracy Is Good! Copyright Is Evil.

Despite the conventional wisdom that BitTorrent websites and illegal downloading are destroying the fabric of entertainment industries, a number of advocates and activists believe that piracy can help independent filmmakers as both a distribution mechanism and promotional tool.

So when i finish my next film and sell it on Amazon or Netflixs, and sell my first copy and that person uploads it on Pirate Bay or Demonoid and after few days ends up on all the flash movie sites, and has been downloaded 5 million times yet in the next six months my film only sells 3 DVD at $12, how does this help the independent filmmaker, nobody came knocking on my door from Hollywood after watching my movie, i lost all the money i put into the project, i have no home and no job and now live on welfare handouts, yet the people sharing my movie on the internet are making money from google ads, is this your RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH.

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This guy.
I would never get television to watch family guy. It's just free and a waste of time so I download it for free.

If Piracy didn't exist, we'd simply see more free media out there. Maybe not the same quality, but it'd be out there. I think piracy rates unreasonably inflate the interest of things. The producer un-realistically assumes all those downloaders would have paid 9.99 for his shitty movie on iTunes he's mistaken. The market would be MUCH smaller, production in the first place would be MUCH harder.

This doesn't make it MORAL to do so, just sayin. I feel for the creators of indie projects. It sucks. They just gotta find new ways to make $ with the tactile product. Maybe they SHOULD be having "concerts".. something original to draw people into an experience that is not portable to a computer screen.