Name: its not a victim less crime 2012-11-18 14:11
Our film is heavily downloaded on torrent sites, despite its catastrophic distribution in the US Seven years ago.
It still gets more downloads than The Thing "remake" and many other high profile horror films, more even than the Prometheus, but pretty much all of it has been through these FREE file-sharing sites.
So in my experience and through talking to other film makers, you're kind of, well, torn by all this, Distributors' "creative accounting" means an unknown writer or director making independent films never sees any back end profits anyway.
And in truth, once the film is made you just want as many people as possible to see it. If it were up to me, the cinema would be $5 to get in, but deep down you just want EVERYONE to see your film... but then... the blunt reality is, would YOU in invest money in any product that is going to be given away for free within an hour of it hitting the shelves?..
Right, so now it just doesn't make sense to invest in a film anymore... but then... there's another upside to free file sharing.
Your 'product' has now been exposed to maybe millions more people than it would have been, if the only way to see it was to pay.
But sales have now stopped, people are not paying for the downloads or DVDs, and infact kill any sequel that might have been!
It still gets more downloads than The Thing "remake" and many other high profile horror films, more even than the Prometheus, but pretty much all of it has been through these FREE file-sharing sites.
So in my experience and through talking to other film makers, you're kind of, well, torn by all this, Distributors' "creative accounting" means an unknown writer or director making independent films never sees any back end profits anyway.
And in truth, once the film is made you just want as many people as possible to see it. If it were up to me, the cinema would be $5 to get in, but deep down you just want EVERYONE to see your film... but then... the blunt reality is, would YOU in invest money in any product that is going to be given away for free within an hour of it hitting the shelves?..
Right, so now it just doesn't make sense to invest in a film anymore... but then... there's another upside to free file sharing.
Your 'product' has now been exposed to maybe millions more people than it would have been, if the only way to see it was to pay.
But sales have now stopped, people are not paying for the downloads or DVDs, and infact kill any sequel that might have been!