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Indie Filmmakers Use P2P to Reach Audience
Economic downturn has left many figuring out a way to cut out the middleman, to reach the audience without having to “spend so much money on advertising and promotion.” With Hollywood box office ticket sales on pace to shatter last year’s all-time record by a mind numbing 9%, it seems appropriate to mention why again P2P isn’t the monster the MPAA claims it is. For Indie filmmakers P2P has been a godsend in the current economic downturn, allowing them to bypass mainstream studios and directly connect with fans. “Releasing it for free is just good marketing,”Finnish filmmaker Timo Vuorensola told Time .
Continue reading »Canadian Artist: P2P Great if it Brings People to Concerts
Indie folk-rock singer Daniel Mangan says he “doesn’t mind” people sharing his music online it if it means they’ll attend one of his concerts and “have a real face to face, human interaction.” Canadian Indie folk-rock singer Daniel Mangan is one of the growing number of music artists who’ve embraced file-sharing as an opportunity to reach new fans rather than as an enemy who needs to be defeated at all costs. Unlike UK pop singer Lily Allen, who blasted P2P as a “disaster” for emerging artists and therefore a principal reason why the UK govt needs to institute a “three-strikes” crackdown on illegal file-sharing, Mangan sees it as a means to reach out to people and convince them to attend one of his concerts or buy some of his band merchandise. “I don’t mind people sharing my music, if downloading or pirating a digital format of a song brings someone to a gig and then they have a real face to face, human interaction, maybe they bring a friend, maybe they buy a t-shirt, that’s great for me,” he told the Telegraph on the verge of his European tour.
Continue reading »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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