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Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”
Writer and director, while “not excited that people are seeing the film without paying,” love the fact that BitTorrent has given Ink an “enormous amount of exposure.” Many of us BitTorrent users are well aware that at best there’s a casual relationship between availability on tracker sites and box office ticket sales. For example, The Dark Knight, despite becoming last year’s most pirated movie, also earned more than $1 billion USD worldwide. For Indie movie producers, much like up and coming music artists, BitTorrent’s potential is enormous, giving them a worldwide audience and exposure with only the cost of a few mouse clicks.
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